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Carter: When will Blumenthal reconsider his support for Obamacare?

 

BETHEL, CT: Republican US Senate Candidate Dan Carter's statement on Aetna announcing departure from nearly 70% of its Affordable Care Act exchanges:

"Aetna's announcement of its intent to scale back 70% of its Affordable Care Act exchanges should come as no surprise to anyone," said Carter. "This is what happens when government takes a top-down, one-size fits all approach to problems that require bottom up solutions." 

"In December UnitedHealth announced it would be leaving Obamacare and Senator Blumenthal sent them a letter asking them to reconsider, but maybe he should be the one reconsidering," said Carter. "Rather than standing on political partisanship, Senator Blumenthal should do the right thing and support healthcare reform that benefits consumers not government." 

"Aetna is another casualty of the insistence by Senator Blumenthal and others in Washington who believe they know best," said Carter. "When will politicians learn that the best healthcare decisions are made by physicians and patients, not politicians?" 

The Hartford Courant quoted Senator Blumenthal's December letter to UnitedHealth: "This insurer has … an ethical duty to stay with the marketplace while it stabilizes and achieves even more enrollees in the very near future."

"Senator Blumenthal, I believe you have an ethical duty to put down your partisan agenda and start doing what's right for your constituents and this country," said Carter. "It's time we start demanding from Senator Blumenthal the same thing he demands from those he uses his office to intimidate." 

"When is enough, enough," asked Carter. "This is yet another symptom of a broken system that must be repealed and replaced." 

"The punishing aspects of Obamacare – high deductibles, lack of providers and insurance companies, the damage to community hospitals – screams out for it to be repealed and replaced with a solution that ensures all Americans access to the best the healthcare system in the world," said Carter. "Yet Senator Blumenthal sits on the sidelines writing letters and using his office to intimidate some of our country's best corporate citizens." 

"If Obamacare were a corporation, Connecticut's consumer protection Senator would be calling them in for questioning, but because it's a pet project of Washington's political elites, Senator Blumenthal gives it a pass," said Carter. "Will Senator Blumenthal be sending a letter to Aetna like he did UnitedHealth or will he finally start to question the actual cause of the problem - the system created by politicians in Washington." 


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