Elections

GOP Candidate Eric Hovde Wanted to Raise Health Care Prices for People With Obesity

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Resurfaced video shows the multimillionaire telling a local channel that obesity is a “personal choice” and insisting, “you become obese, your health care is going to cost more.”

Kate Briquelet
Kate Briquelet 

Senior Reporter

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A photo illustration showing Eric Hovde in front of a BMI Chart that has dollar signs in place of numbers.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File
Kate Briquelet

Kate Briquelet

Senior Reporter

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