Stenehjem campaign calls Burgum ad on Obamacare

misleading and false

Bismarck, N.D. April 14, 2016 A new television ad claiming that Republican
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has been a supporter of Obamacare is blatantly
inaccurate and fundamentally wrong.
Stenehjem has long opposed Obamacare as yet another example of the
administrations inclination for federal overreach, an unwarranted intrusion into our
personal lives and a violation of constitutional rights.
Its unfortunate the Burgum campaign has sunk to the tactic of false claims,
Stenehjem said in response to the ad. Its clear they need to do their homework
before they create and distribute this kind of information.
Few in North Dakota have been fighting harder against Obamacare than I have, he
said. In 2010, Stenehjem was among the first Attorneys General in the nation to
join the original lawsuit to overturn Obamacare. Further, in 2014 Stenehjem
opposed a lawsuit created to kill Obamacare not because he supported the
disastrous healthcare plan but because he believed the lawsuit itself was illconceived and held the possibility to hurt North Dakotans.
The lawsuit sought to halt federal tax credits for people who signed up for
Obamacare through the federal exchange. The impact of this lawsuit on our
states policy holders would have been devastating, Stenehjem said. Over
15,000 North Dakota Obamacare policyholders would have been denied the
federal credit they counted on to help pay the premiums they were required by law
to buy.

According to Stenehjem, Thats a pretty major income tax increase for thousands
of middle and low income families. Maybe Doug Burgum thinks only he should get
federal tax credits and not hard working North Dakota families.