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

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 (ACA). Back then, Hovde said he didn’t support anything about it—including its coverage for Americans with preexisting conditions or allowing people to stay on their family’s insurance until age 26.

Now newly resurfaced video shows 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.

Read more at The Daily Beast.