With Aetna following UnitedHealth’s withdrawal from Arizona, Kirkpatrick’s claim that Obamacare “will preserve existing coverage” is even more laughable. Making matters worse, it’s likely that Arizona’s third largest county won’t even have a plan offered on the state exchange.
Aetna’s move will sharpen concerns about competitive options in the exchanges—and it puts at least one county, Pinal in Arizona, at risk of having no insurers offering exchange plans in 2017, a circumstance that would present a major challenge to the basic mechanics of the ACA…
Stephen Briggs, a spokesman for Arizona’s state insurance regulator, said the state currently has no insurers that have filed to offer exchange plans in Pinal, a county in the Phoenix area. (Anna Wilde Mathews, “Aetna To Drop Some Affordable Care Act Markets,” Wall Street Journal, 8/15/16)
The continued failure of Obamacare in Arizona should be an ongoing embarrassment for Kirkpatrick, but she stands by the debacle she calls her proudest vote.
But Kirkpatrick’s blind loyalty to her party’s disastrous political agenda doesn’t change the fact that her broken promises about the law are piling up:
Kirkpatrick won’t admit that her vote for Obamacare hammered Arizona – in the face of overwhelming evidence. When her Washington friends are pushing a political agenda, Arizona families just can’t trust Ann Kirkpatrick to put them first.