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.
Texas has been slowly improving health insurance signups, bringing down the number of uninsured by 3 percentage points year-over-year. Part of that is due to the federally-mandated insurance exchanges under Obamacare, which enrolled more than one-million Texans in health insurance plans.