In business, the term operating expense (OPEX) appears in budgeting and spending, but also as an Income statement term in financial accounting. In brief, operating expenses include most expenditures for operating the firm's normal line of business, which are not capital spending. Operating expenses do not result in capital assets.
At the state level, the percentage of the under-65 population who were either uninsured or underinsured ranged from 14 percent in Massachusetts to 36 percent to 38 percent in the five highest-rate statesâIdaho, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.
We have 40 million people who are uninsured in the United States. That equals the entire country of Canada, the number of uninsured in the United States. What the healthcare debate is about is how to take care of those people. We are a nation about self. We are not about others all that much. We are debating between freedom and government oversight.