If these estimates are correct, the initial enrollment cost about $280 per person enrolled. That’s a hefty price. Of course, we will never know the true cost of all this or how the calculations are made that support all the claims of success or how we measure success for that matter. CMS claims Americans have saved $9 billion as a result of Obamacare, I wonder if that is net of the $2 billion implementation cost? LOL 😎
More importantly we need to define “saved.” How do we save 
money in health care? Well, if you discount savings that are actually cost-shifting to some other entity, the only way to truly save money is to receive less health care and to pay less (not just the patient but the gross charge) for the care that is actually needed. So, do you think we have saved $9 billion?
The federal government’s Obamacare enrollment system has cost about $2.1 billion so far, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of contracts related to the project.
Spending for healthcare.gov and related programs, including at the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies, exceeds cost estimates provided by the Obama administration, the analysis found. The government’s most recent estimate, limited to spending on computer systems by the agency that runs the site, through February, is $834 million.
Healthcare.gov and its associated programs are the main portal for millions of Americans to sign up for coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. Spending for the system has been a matter of dispute between the administration and Republican opponents in Congress, who have tried to block funding for the law.
“The way in which Obamacare has been rolled out has been very messy,” with spending scattered across dozens of contracts, many of them predating the law and amended afterward, said Peter Gosselin, a senior health-care analyst at BGov and lead author of study. “One of the reasons it has been implemented in the way it has been, financially, is precisely to deny opponents of the law a clear target.”
via Obamacare Website Costs Exceed $2 Billion, Study Finds – Bloomberg.
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