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Eric Hovde: “The two biggest cost drivers are end of life care and…”

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

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… like Kentucky where it's just all Medicare and Medicaid fraud and just, you know, pill dispensaries, a lot of it narcotics. But putting that fraud piece aside, which is critical, The two biggest cost drivers are end of life care and chronic disease. Could be Parkinson's, could be cancer, could be Alzheimer's, could be ms, could be any one of those things. (30:02–30:09)

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Asserts that end-of-life care and chronic diseases are the largest cost drivers in healthcare.

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