Aetna Inc. CEO Ronald Williams says the Hartford health insurer expects the United States to take more modest steps towards healthcare reform in the wake of last week’s Republican victory in the Senate race for Massachusetts, Reuters reports.
“It is likely to be more incremental in the context of the feedback it seems to be getting from the public,” Williams told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Reform bills that have been under debate in Congress would reshape the insurance market through new regulations, taxes and other changes. But President Barack Obama’s ability to drive through reform is in doubt in the wake of the election setback.
“We need to have some form of healthcare reform, but it has to focus both on increasing access and affordability — and what people seem to be doing is pausing to try to figure out how do we go about that in a bipartisan way,” Williams said.
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