http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/aetna-faces-probe-over-politically-motivated-obamacare-exit/426035/

• A group of senators is seeking answers from Aetna about its abrupt decision to leave the ACA marketplaces following the DOJ’s challenge to the company’s proposed $37 billion merger with Humana.
• The letter came Thursday from Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).
• While other insurers have also scaled back their ACA participation, the probe into Aetna comes in response to a letter from Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which the company is perceived to have directly threatened the government that it would leave the exchanges if the merger was not approved.

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/aetnas-bertolini-counters-accusation-of-power-play-against-doj/426236/

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-bertolini-senators-20160912-story.html

• Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has responded to a letter from a group of senators who accused the company last week of exiting the majority of its ACA markets as a ploy against the federal government for challenging Aetna’s proposed merger with Humana.
• Bertolini dismissed the senators’ arguments as”unfounded accusations,” the Hartford Courant reported.
• Aetna spokesman T.J. Crawford told the Courant the company had not received a response from the senators.