Software :: Bash Script: Ssh Breaks While Loop?

I ran across some odd behaviour using ssh in a bash script. I am hoping someone can explain it to me. I have a file called /home/user/hosts.

Code:
$ cat /home/user/hosts
host1
host2
host3

What I want (for this example anyway) is to run a script that checks this file and for each entry in this file it should log into that host and run a command. I have a script called testssh.sh.

Code:

$ cat /home/user/testssh.sh
#!/bin/bash -
somefile='/home/user/hosts'

[code].....

The oddity that wasted an hour of my day and the question I have for this group is, what is it about ssh that breaks the while loop? It obviously runs through once and checks the first host, just never checks any of the others. I checked exit status's and all kinds of verbose data and I could not figure it out.