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Contact: Joe O’Leary | Joe.OLeary@cga.ct.gov | 508-479-4969

December 5, 2024

SENATOR ANWAR ISSUES ‘OUTRAGED’ STATEMENT ON ANTHEM REPORTEDLY CAPPING ANESTHESIA COSTS

Today, State Senator Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor), Senate Chair of the Public Health Committee, issued a statement in response to reports that Anthem health insurance plans will no longer cover anesthesia for patients receiving surgeries or procedures beyond certain time limits:

“I am outraged that the companies we trust to support our health care systems, time and time again, instead seek to squeeze as much profit out of them as possible. A policy like this is directly dangerous to patients’ well-being, regarding the quality of the procedures they receive and the financial strain they could face after the fact. Anthem should reverse this cruel, ineffective, heavy-handedly abusive policy before it impacts patient care, throws people into medical debt or places timers hovering over the heads of surgeons in operating rooms. In the meantime, I will consult my colleagues on policy solutions to prevent greed like this from impacting public health in Connecticut.”