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Toby Doeden: “We had no health insurance [when my oldest son was born].”

Featuring: Toby Doeden, Republican | Candidate for Governor of South Dakota

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Government Watch South Dakota with Toby Doeden

Published | Video Starts at 03:33

My oldest son, Jackson, was born in the fall of 1996, and kind of a difficult experience at the hospital and the fact that We had no health insurance [when my oldest son was born]. Liz and I started our, our brand new family with tens of thousands of dollars in hospital debt. And we took Jackson home from the first house I ever bought on owner financing for 4,000 bucks. (03:33–03:46)

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Asserts that he and his wife lacked health insurance at the time of their first child's birth.

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