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Study: Health care costs strain farmers, ranchers

Mon, 07/13/2009 - 1:26pm — DCblogger

Capital Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A new report says farmers and ranchers often can't afford the health insurance offered to small-business owners.

The report from The Access Project says family farmers and ranchers are insured at a rate higher than the general population, but that 10 percent of them were uninsured, or had an uninsured family member, sometime during the previous year.

The report was based on data gathered through a 2007 survey of farm and ranch operators in seven Great Plains states including Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.

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contrast that with:

By hipparchia on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 12:21am

A fifth-generation heir to a Montana ranching fortune, Baucus is an unlikely leader of the cause [health reform]. He is the great grandson of Henry Sieben whose huge ranch was the location of the movie, A River Runs Through It. He grew up on a 125,000-acre ranch near Helena, graduated from college and law school at Stanford, being winning a close congressional race in 1974. Four years later, he was elected to the Senate.

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