Republicans have a number of work to do in relation to healthcare coverage, in accordance with Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde.
Health care prices are so excessive in some areas of the Badger State that many wrestle to even entry therapy, Hovde instructed Fox News Digital in an interview.
“You know, the left loves running on Obamacare, and they think they, you know, own health care,” Hovde stated. “I think Republicans are making a mistake not talking about it because of the cost of health care since Obamacare was passed, but more importantly than even the cost, the access to care has gone significantly down.”
“Everybody is having struggles, particularly in our rural communities, with getting access to health care,” he added. “America’s health care system is broken, and Obamacare, which was supposed to be a solution, has only made cost and access to care worse.”
Eric Hovde, a Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate, speaks at a rally hosted by former President Donald Trump on April 02, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
This subject grew to become one that’s private to Hovde after he was identified with a number of sclerosis in his 20s.
“As someone who was diagnosed with MS at 27 years old, I know on a personal level that we need reforms that provide patient-first solutions to provide greater price transparency, lower costs and improved accessibility,” Hovde stated.
Though he intends to make healthcare a serious precedence of his marketing campaign, different points going through Wisconsinites embrace financial insecurity, the southern border disaster, and crime, in accordance with Hovde.
“I would say the economy is the biggest thing,” he stated. “I was talking with a younger person who was 21 or 22 years old and she looked at me and said, ‘I’m working two jobs. I work all the time, and I still have to live with my parents. Everything costs way too much.’ So that would probably be the biggest thing that I hear consistently about is the cost of all goods and how expensive everything is.”
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“The border is a huge issue. It’s affecting our state now. People are very concerned about that. So I’d say that’s another big issue,” he added.
The most necessary subject for every voter is determined by the place in Wisconsin one lives, Hovde advised. “If you’re over in Milwaukee, [it’s] crime,” he stated.
“Crime is a very prominent issue here in Milwaukee. Whereas here in the Northwoods or the western part of the state, it’s largely smaller rural communities where they don’t have a crime problem.”
Hovde, who has repeatedly criticized profession politicians for his or her efforts to serve particular curiosity teams reasonably than their constituents, introduced final month that he would donate his congressional wage to charity if he is elected later this yr.
Hovde attracts robust distinctions between himself and his rival, Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who was first elected to the seat in 2012.
When it involves Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., Hovde instructed Fox, “You couldn’t get two more different people.” (Eric Hovde marketing campaign)
“You couldn’t get two more different people,” Hovde stated.
“I’ve spent my life in the private sector, building companies. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I’ve created thousands of jobs through the different companies I’ve built and turned around. I live in the real world, I know what it’s like to buy my own health insurance, but more importantly, the insurance for hundreds of thousands of employees,” he stated.
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“I understand how our globalized, financialized economy operates. Senator Baldwin has spent her entire life in politics from the time she graduated from college. She’s your classic career politician,” he added. “She came out of college, ran for Dane County Board of Supervisors. From that she went on to the [Wisconsin] State Assembly. From that, she went on to Congress and now has two terms in the Senate. She’s never operated in the real world. She operates in a political bubble. She doesn’t know the real middle class America, the struggles and the issues they face.”
Referring to her voting report as “atrocious,” Hovde stated Baldwin voted “for all this debt that has fueled the inflationary crises.”
“She’s voted in support of President Biden on the border,” he added. “She supported the Iranian deal that President Biden signed with Iran. I mean, insanity. It blew up on Obama, and then he goes and doubles down on that, and she supports him.”
Hovde stated Baldwin adjustments when every election cycle nears. She “comes back during election time, makes these staged events, acts like she’s a moderate, and everybody in Washington knows she’s one of the most progressive liberals there are in the entire Senate,” he stated.
Though he has but to obtain his celebration’s nomination for Senate, Hovde bought a lift in assist from former President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Former President Donald Trump gave his “complete and total endorsement”Hovde earlier this month. (Getty Images)
During a go to by the previous president to Green Bay for a marketing campaign rally, Trump praised Hovde as a “man who’s doing really good” and is “just about even in the polls” earlier than giving him his “complete and total endorsement.”
“I’ve met Eric and I’ve studied Eric because we have to get it right. [He’s] running against some very fine people, really, but I’ve looked it out, and they’re going to have other opportunities,” Trump stated on the time. “Eric, I am giving you my complete and total endorsement, so go out and win.”
Hovde stated he appreciates Trump’s endorsement and compliments. “It helps with the Trump voters. … It’s a positive,” he stated.
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Wisconsin’s major election is slated for Aug. 13. Hovde is operating towards half a dozen different Republicans who’re in search of the celebration’s nomination.
