Anthem Will No Longer Sell Obamacare Plans in Indiana

WASHINGTON, June 21 -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued the following news release:

While Do-Nothing Democrat Senator Joe Donnelly is busy playing his bizarre blame game, Hoosiers are feeling the real effects of Obamacare's failure in Indiana.

Anthem, the largest seller of Obamacare plans in Indiana announced today that it will pull out of the market in 2018, leaving 46,000 Hoosiers without coverage next year. Anthem's decision follows four major insurers that pulled out of the state last fall, causing 68,000 to lose their health insurance, and comes just weeks after a federal report showed that between 2013 and 2017, individual market premiums in Indiana increased by an average of 74 percent. Will this serve as a wakeup call for Donnelly? Or will he continue to side with Washington liberals who are fighting to keep Barack Obama's failed health care law in place?

"Anthem's decision is just the latest signal that Obamacare is not working for Indiana families, but Joe Donnelly continues to fight to keep the failed status quo," said NRSC Spokesman Bob Salera. "Instead of playing partisan games, it's time for Joe Donnelly to work to fix the damage his vote for Obamacare has done to health care in Indiana."