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

Season 3 Episode 9 The Red Corner Eric Hovde

Published September 18, 2024 | Video Starts at 42:08

Great. Thank you so much, Eric, for getting into the ring with me. Good luck in November. Thank you and appreciate you being on the show. It's great being on your show, Hector. We really enjoyed it, as always. You can find all interviews on our podcast website, subscribe to in the ring on YouTube, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn so you don't miss any of these important updates and interviews in the future. (42:08–42:12)

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“The cost of health care continues to rise and the access to care is now starting to become very problematic.”
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“In our rural communities, which we've known has become an issue for now over a decade.”
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“Even in a market like Madison, it's become difficult [to access healthcare].”
Season 3 Episode 9 The Red Corner Eric Hovde | Uploaded September 18, 2024 | 03:24-03:29
“The cost of healthcare has just continued to spiral up. The access to care has gone down.”
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“I don't think the Affordable Care Act lived up at all to its promises. It said it was going to flatline costs. It has done nothing like…”
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“The cost of health care has risen more dramatically.”
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“Why did [Obamacare] fundamentally fail? Because it's central planning.”
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“I understand those that are struggling with a preexisting condition.”
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“That's the one thing that I liked about Obamacare.”
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“If you price people out of getting healthcare, either through higher and higher healthcare insurance costs, higher and higher medical costs…”
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“We're all going to, at some point in time in our life, have a medical emergency.”
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“To have our healthcare system bankrupting people is crazy.”
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“They allowed mass consolidation to happen.”
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“UW health, the biggest [healthcare provider in Madison, Wisconsin] bought Meritor.”
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“80% of Meritor is controlled by UW Health.”
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“They capped the amount that an insurance premium company could make on a dollar spent of medical care costs.”
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“It took away the incentive for the health insurer to push back down on medical costs.”
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“The only way a health insurer could make more money... is let health care costs move up.”
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“President Obama said you would be able to keep your family doctor.”
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“It basically wiped out the small family doctor.”
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“Everything has been now these big, huge medical systems and doctor groups.”
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“We need to get back to competition that is critical to drive down costs and provide greater access.”
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“A lot of our health care costs goes to a segment of society that is sick.”
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“We really got to get on with preventative care and how to get people healthy.”
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“Healthcare is way behind the curve of using technology innovation to provide more affordable and better service.”
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“We have a lack of nurses. We have a lack of doctors.”
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“We need to fix our legal immigration because I don't know if we're going to be able to address all our healthcare needs from nurses and…”
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“We need to fix our legal immigration system to bring in doctors or nurses from other countries that want to come into this country.”
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“Another issue we need to address is price transparency.”
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“We need price transparency. That's going to force the big medical providers to run their business more efficiently, effectively, and use…”
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“Medicaid reimbursement rates in Wisconsin, I think, are one of the lowest in the country.”
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“I believe the lowest of the midwestern states.”
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“Healthcare really needs to invest in technology.”
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“I'm a believer in telehealth for a lot of basic things.”
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“Eastern medicine is more focused on health, where western medicine is more focused on fixing you or correcting a problem after you've…”
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“We need to get our society healthier.”
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“Physical, mental and emotional health are interlinked.”
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“Diets are so critical, exercise so critical to our overall health.”
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“This phone has done so much damage to mental health.”
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“We have younger people in such mental health crisis because of social media.”
Season 3 Episode 9 The Red Corner Eric Hovde | Uploaded September 18, 2024 | 25:55-26:02
“Type two diabetes because my wife's father and brother has it, and so she was sensitive to it.”
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“She's been able to keep herself now for over ten years below that level, where she'd have to, you know, would be a type two diabetic and…”
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“The world has never been more engulfed with conflict, and I think a lot of that came because of how we withdrew from Afghanistan.”
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“Senator Baldwin votes 95.5% with her party.”
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“We're losing 100,000 young Americans every year [to the fentanyl crisis].”
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“Washington, DC has done nothing about [the fentanyl crisis].”
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“I literally exercise every day that some days get squeezed. But an hour and a half every day.”
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“Good sleep is so critically important.”
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“Cold therapy... lifts your spirits and it improves your immune system.”
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“Washington again is broken. It's not getting things done.”
Season 3 Episode 9 The Red Corner Eric Hovde | Uploaded September 18, 2024 | 41:42-41:48
“I'm not running for this US Senate seat to go sit there and twiddle my thumbs. I want to get things done and make this country better.”
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