Connecticut Democrats Recite Talking Points While Obamacare Disaster Continues in Their Backyard

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- The Republican Governors Association issued the following news release:

With Obamacare wreaking havoc in their home state, Connecticut Democrats are more concerned with what's going on in Washington D.C. than in their own backyard. Reacting to the new Senate healthcare bill, Failed Governor Dan Malloy and his lieutenant governor Nancy Wyman, who has expressed interest in running to succeed him, issued a joint statement condemning the bill for potential premium hikes. State Senator Ted Kennedy Jr., another Democrat 2018 gubernatorial prospect, also expressed similar sentiments in an MSNBC interview. But none of them mentioned that premium hikes and lost coverage are exactly what is happening in Connecticut right now due to Obamacare and they have done absolutely nothing to address the situation.

The Associated Press reported on premium hikes in Connecticut just weeks ago:

"Tens of thousands of Connecticut health insurance consumers will still see double-digit percentage increases in their 2017 premiums, even though the state's Department of Insurance has denied some rate requests filed by health insurers while reducing others.

The agency said Friday that the rates reflect rising medical costs and elimination of the federal payments previously made to insurers to help stabilize rates during the first three years of the Affordable Care Act...

Both Anthem Health Plans and ConnectiCare Insurance Co. are being ordered to recalculate their requests for certain plans they offer to consumers. Wade said they were excessive. Anthem was seeking an average 26.8 percent increase for individual plans serving 56,700 people offered on the state exchange and an average 11.6 percent increase for small group plans serving 42,200 people offered on the exchange. ConnectiCare was denied its request for a 24.3 percent increase for individual plans offered off the exchange and covering 37,142 people."

In their rush to recite national Democrat talking points on the healthcare bill, Malloy, Wyman, and Kennedy haven't realized that skyrocketing premiums and lost coverage for thousands are happening in Connecticut right now. Instead of working to protect the people of their state from the disastrous fallout of Obama's failed healthcare law, Connecticut Democrats would rather gripe about what is going on in Washington, D.C. to score political points at the cost of their constituents.