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.
One of the major costs of cancer is cancer treatment. But lack of health insurance and other barriers to health care prevent many Americans from getting optimal health care. 1  According to the US Census Bureau, about 48 million people (15.4%) in the US were uninsured in 2012.his year, about 589,430 US residents are expected to die of cancer â thatâs more than 1,600 people a day. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. Cancer accounts for nearly 1 out of every 4 deaths in the United States. Cancer costs us billions of dollars.