Matt Rosendale is not good for Montana's families

Know anyone with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, cancer, or a litany of other ailments or injuries? I do.

Terry retired early due to increasing hip pain. A year later, he needed a hip replacement. At 22, Clayton was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Without expensive medication, he’d become disabled in five years. Gary got cancer but couldn’t get lifesaving treatments because he had no health insurance.

Thanks to the Patient Protection-Affordable Care Act (PPACA), they were able to buy health insurance and receive treatment despite their preexisting conditions.

As insurance commissioner, Matt Rosendale supported policies allowing insurance companies to discriminate against 152,000 Montanans with pre-existing conditions.

Nobody disputes healthcare costs are too high. Yet Rosendale allowed a 23 percent rate hike. Now, he says the way to save money is to remove the life-saving patient protections of the PPACA. Such hypocrisy!

Terry is back at work. Clayton got his MSW and works in mental health. Gary is alive and sings in his church choir. They’re my husband, my son, my brother. My family’s story could easily be yours.

Putting money over people might work in Maryland, Matt, but not in Montana.

—D.D. Epperson,

Kalispell