Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R) “said earlier this year that he wants to privatize the U.S. healthcare system,” Semafor reports.

“The comments, made at an August meet-and-greet in Glasgow, Mont., were captured on an audio recording obtained by Semafor. Speaking to a group of attendees, Sheehy argued that the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies for insurance coverage and other federal health programs had inflated the cost of medical treatment.”

Said Sheehy: “Our hospitals have been built around federal healthcare subsidies. In my opinion we need to return healthcare to pure privatization.”