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.
In 2013, 19 states had uninsured rates of more than 14 percent; in 2014 that number fell by nearly half, to 10 states. In the 26 states that had not expanded eligibility for Medicaid under the ACA as of January 2014, uninsured rates exceeded the national average in 16 of them.