MADISON, Wis. — Today, Politifact Wisconsin fact checked if Eric Hovde (R–Laguna Beach) wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and kick millions off their health insurance. They found the claim is TRUE and that millions would lose their health insurance if Hovde has his way.
Hovde has said for over a decade that he does want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He has said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act “in its entirety,” there were “no ifs, ands, or buts” about the fact he wanted to repeal it, and when asked specifically about if he would keep the provision protecting pre-existing conditions, Hovde emphatically said “No!”
See key points from Politifact Wisconsin below:
By: Hope Karnopp
- In comments from 2024, 2017 and 2012, Hovde said he wants to repeal the ACA.
- The most recent of those examples was in June of this year, when Hovde was interviewed by WMTV 15, a Madison television station.
- “Would you want to repeal the Affordable Care Act?” the reporter asked.
- “Oh, 100%. I think we need to change the Affordable Care Act,” Hovde answered.
- Baldwin’s campaign also shared clips of Hovde’s remarks in 2017, when he said he would have voted for two Republican bills that would have repealed and replaced the ACA.
- “You should push it through. You should get it done because it’s a vast improvement (to) where we are. But is it a perfect bill, absolutely not,” Hovde told conservative radio host Jerry Bader on WTAQ in June 2017.
- And in 2012, when he was running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Hovde made multiple comments that he’d repeal the law.
- One of those instances was during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board, in which Hovde said he’d repeal the ACA “in its entirety.”
- “I think we need to move back to a free-market approach to solve a lot of these problems. I think we need to break up the mini-monopolies in every single state,” Hovde said in part.
- We rate Baldwin’s claim True.
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