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Eric Hovde: “Why did [Obamacare] fundamentally fail? Because it's central…”

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 06:26

So those, in my view, are by far the two biggest issues we have to wrestle with. So, back to Obamacare. Why did [Obamacare] fundamentally fail? Because it's central planning. At its worst, it was a group of people sitting in Washington, DC that thought they could figure out a very complex system and design things that only exacerbated the very problems they were trying to fix. (06:26–09:13)

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