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.
50 million were uninsured. The cost of health care â and health insurance â was rising so fast that ever-growing numbers of us were winding up in the ranks of the uninsured. Fifty million â one out of every six of us â were uninsured when the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010. That number was projected to grow by several million more over the coming decade if Congress didnât pass reform legislation.