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Eric Hovde: “The fact that you're going to drive costs down and you're…”

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

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But yes, there's never going to be a perfect solution and there may be some negative byproducts product of that. But The fact that you're going to drive costs down and you're going to open up the free market system to competitively price health insurance is a huge windfall for consumers. James? Yeah. Let's go to insurance for a moment. In Milwaukee county alone there are about 100,000 people who don't have insurance and statewide there are about 400, over 400,000 people without insurance. (38:59–39:10)

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Asserts that allowing competition in health insurance will drive costs down and benefit consumers.

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