The Cost of Hope & Change
Reason’s Peter Suderman took a detailed look at The Great ObamaCare Debacle and calculated just how much taxpayer money has been wasted (so far) on seven beleaguered exchanges. Oregon topped the list with $305.2 million in federal grants, but “absolutely nothing to show for it.” Hawaii came in second with $205 million down the drain, followed by Massachusetts ($179 million), Maryland ($171 million), Vermont ($165.2 million), Minnesota ($153.7 million) and Nevada ($90.7 million). That’s well north of $1.2 billion dollars on just seven health care marketplaces – exchanges, by the way, still infested with terminal issues. Such inefficiency in the private sector would run any corporation into the ground, yet Big Brother gets a pass. More…
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