Senate Candidate: Charge Obese More For Healthcare

The Daily Beast reports:

Multimillionaire banker and Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has made health care, namely his beef with Obamacare, one of four central issues on his campaign website. The Republican challenger to Democrat Tammy Baldwin, who also unsuccessfully ran in 2012, has long opposed the Affordable Care Act. Video shows that Hovde proposed enacting an especially cruel health-care measure: Charging higher premiums for people living with obesity and reducing the amount of care they receive.

“You become obese, your health care is going to cost more,” Hovde told public affairs channel WisconsinEye. “It’s a personal choice,” he said, “but there should be consequences to those personal choices. Fine, you want to do that, you become obese, your health care is going to cost more. Or, the quality—or not the quality, but the amount of health care may go down, because you may not have the money to afford it.”

Read the full article. The Wisconsin primary is August 13. Baldwin is running unopposed. Hovde is running against six other Republicans. He is the CEO of Sunwest Bank and a real estate company founded by his grandfather.