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Eric Hovde: “President Obama said you could keep your family doctor…”

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

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Eric Hovde interview on Western Wisconsin Journal

Published | Video Starts at 12:54

No, the cost of health care has only gone up faster and the access to care has gone down. The only good thing about Obamacare was preexisting conditions. Everything else has been a mess. And by the way President Obama said you could keep your family doctor. Well, we pretty much wiped out the family doctor. We've allowed monopolies and oligarchies to be created. So we need to really tackle our healthcare problems because this is only going to get even worse as baby boomers all start. (12:54–13:01)

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Asserts that the promise of keeping family doctors under Obamacare has not been fulfilled.

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