FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: June 21, 2017
Joe Donnelly's Obamacare Continues Collapse in Indiana
Two More Obamacare Exchange Insurers Drop Their Plans
INDIANAPOLIS – Two days after Senator Joe Donnelly inexplicably and desperately tried to claim Republicans were at fault for the many failures of Obamacare, two more insurers announced plans to stop offering coverage on the Obamacare Indiana exchange. Anthem, the largest insurer on the exchange, and MDWise both said that they will not offer plans in 2018, leaving over 76,000 Hoosiers without coverage.
“Joe Donnelly’s Obamacare continues its collapse in Indiana,” said Indiana Republican Party State Chairman Kyle Hupfer. “We were promised more affordable prices, and yet premiums have gone up 74 percent. We were told there would be more access to coverage, and for the second time in two years fifty percent of insurers on the exchange have fled."
Hupfer added, “Today's news is yet another example that the federal system we have is not working for Hoosiers and it’s not working for Americans. We need patient-centered reforms that fix the mess Joe Donnelly helped create and bring certainty and stability to the marketplace.”
Indiana’s Obamacare exchange began 2016 with eight insurers. That number dropped to four in 2017 and, assuming the other current providers remain, only two options in 2018.
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