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Eric Hovde: “If you price people out of getting healthcare, either…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Season 3 Episode 9 The Red Corner Eric Hovde

Published | Video Starts at 08:00

One, can I ask you real quick before we get into that? Sure. Are your priorities cost, high cost and poor access, are those would be your two priorities? Yeah. I mean, look, If you price people out of getting healthcare, either through higher and higher healthcare insurance costs, higher and higher medical costs, then people can't afford it, or it bankrupts too many families because they have a medical emergency. We're all going to, at some point in time in our life, have a medical emergency. That's just reality. (08:00–08:18)

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Asserts that high healthcare and insurance costs can make healthcare unaffordable and bankrupt families.

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