Aetna CEO Says 3rd Largest Insurer May Still Opt Out of ObamaCare

‘It needs to get much better than it is right now’

GRIFFETH: "OK. Are you seeing progress?"
BERTOLINI: "We are seeing progress. Every day we make a little more progress and we see a little more growth."
EVANS: "Mark, where do you think this is all heading? Because we're in a midterm election year. There are still members of the GOP in particular who would like to see this law completely rewritten, while on the other side you've got people on the Democratic side running and saying that perhaps we haven't gone far enough, we need a single-payer system. Do you feel as though ObamaCare itself -- do you have confidence in the way that this program exists today and will exist the next couple of years?"
BERTOLINI: "Well I think, Kelly, if you take a look at a bill like Medicare, every year it gets tweaked or change. So to expect that ObamaCare hasn't been changed already and that the Affordable Care Act won't change in the future is probably not realistic. So I would say that we do expect changes and we do need to improve the bill. It is the law of the land and it needs to get much better than it is now, but so has every other major program -- entitlement program like this one has been touched in the past."
 

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