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ObamaCare Could Threaten Farmers

Tester’s Fellow Senate Dems Admit ObamaCare "Could Threaten Farmers’ Insurance Coverage”

Tester Said ObamaCare Was "Strengthening Health Care For All Montanans,” But Fellow Dems Disagree

 

HELENA, MT — Today, Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reported that a group of Senator Jon Tester’s fellow Senate Democrats are now admitting that the Obama-Tester health care overhaul "could threaten farmers’ insurance coverage.”

 

When Tester gave President Obama the deciding 60th vote to ram ObamaCare into law, he said it was "a law I believe is right for Montana” and claimed it would "be a huge step forward for Montana families.”  Earlier this year, Tester said ObamaCare was "strengthening health care for all Montanans.”

 

But today’s admission by his own fellow Senate Democrats says otherwise.  The group writes that, thanks to ObamaCare, farmers’ cooperatives "will inevitably lose significant participation from their membership, thus putting at risk the integrity of their risk pool, increasing the premiums for remaining members, and ultimately threatening the viability of their model.”

 

"Senator Tester promised ObamaCare would be ‘a huge step forward for Montana families,’ but instead it’s been the exact opposite, and now even his own fellow Democrats are revealing that it threatens the health insurance coverage our state’s farmers depend on,” said Bowen Greenwood, Executive Director of the Montana Republican Party.  "Yet again, folks in Montana are reminded that Tester put his loyalty to President Obama ahead of their best interests when he cast the 60th and deciding vote to make ObamaCare the law of the land.”