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HealthCare.gov A Bargain Compared To State Exchanges

Julie Rovner | Government Health IT | May 8, 2014

...As rocky as its rollout was, it cost the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov, an average of $647 of federal tax dollars to sign up each enrollee, according to a new report.  It cost an average of $1,503 – well over twice as much – to sign up each person in the 15 exchanges run by individual states and Washington, D.C...

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