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The nation's biggest health insurers are making it perfectly clear to lawmakers looking to fulfill campaign promises to establish a public option: you will face a massively financed lobbying and PR campaign if you even try.
And this isn't just in Washington. The industry has unleashed campaigns in at least two states so far -- Colorado and Connecticut -- where legislators are hoping to establish state-based public option plans.
The legislation in Connecticut facing fierce opposition from the insurers has the backing of State Comptroller Kevin Lembo and several Democratic legislators, but Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has remained quiet on the bill so far.
To try to move the governor into their camp, the CEOs of five insurers that do business in the state, including two that are based there, Cigna and Aetna, sent him a letter this month implying they would move jobs out of the state if the public option bill became law.
The nation's biggest health insurers are making it perfectly clear to lawmakers looking to fulfill campaign promises to establish a public option: you will face a massively financed lobbying and PR campaign if you even try.
And this isn't just in Washington. The industry has unleashed campaigns in at least two states so far -- Colorado and Connecticut -- where legislators are hoping to establish state-based public option plans.
The legislation in Connecticut facing fierce opposition from the insurers has the backing of State Comptroller Kevin Lembo and several Democratic legislators, but Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has remained quiet on the bill so far.
To try to move the governor into their camp, the CEOs of five insurers that do business in the state, including two that are based there, Cigna and Aetna, sent him a letter this month implying they would move jobs out of the state if the public option bill became law.
