WV Farm Bureau Magazine December 2013 | Page 16

Wilfong, continued Stinnett, continued knew about them for several months before the website was launched. Insurance companies are reporting that much of the information they are receiving regarding enrollees is unusable gibberish. And many people who received enrollment confirmation from the website have not been enrolled at all. Their data is missing. Even more alarming are the security issues with personal information entered onto the website. Many security experts say the website is completely vulnerable to attack by hackers and have been able to demonstrate just how easily private information can be obtained from Healthcare.gov. because the issue was never about needing a permit in the first place. It was about control over private property rights. Many people believe that all of this is purposely designed to fail so that a single-payer healthcare system, totally run by the government, can be put into place. Obama has advocated such a system in the past. The impact – economic and otherwise – to farmers and farm businesses is going to be tremendous. One example is Southern States Co-op, a farmerowned cooperative that supplies farm inputs for farmers here in West Virginia and other states in the eastern U.S. At the Southern States board meeting in November, directors were told that Obamacare will