2024 WI Senate race: on Health Care

Tammy Baldwin: Address racial disparities in health care system

Tammy Baldwin (D): Increase. "No American should have to choose between basic necessities... and paying for the drugs they need." Introduced the Capping Prescription Costs Act. Supports expanding Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid. Calls for addressing "racial disparities that exist in our nation's health care system."

Eric Hovde (R): Decrease. "Obamacare created monopolies and oligarchies and wiped out the family doctor." Repeal it. It's "stupid" to keep young adults on their parents' insurance until age 26. Would continue protecting benefits for pre-existing conditions.

Eric Hovde: The ACA has failed to live up to its expectation

Eric Hovde: ObamaCare is stupid to keep 26-yr-olds on parents' insurance

Eric Hovde (R): Decrease. "Obamacare created monopolies and oligarchies and wiped out the family doctor." Repeal it. It's "stupid" to keep young adults on their parents' insurance until age 26. Would continue protecting benefits for pre-existing conditions.

Tammy Baldwin (D): Increase. "No American should have to choose between basic necessities... and paying for the drugs they need." Introduced the Capping Prescription Costs Act. Supports expanding Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid. Calls for addressing "racial disparities that exist in our nation's health care system."

Eric Hovde: Opposes repealing Obamacare, for Medicaid expansion

Eric Hovde: I think drug prices are wildly too high

Baldwin: It was my provision that allowed young people to stay on their parents health insurance until they turned 26. Sadly my opponent called that provision stupid and has said that he would overturn the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. He opposes efforts to negotiate with the big pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of prescription drugs. We need to build upon the Affordable Care Act and we need to build upon our efforts to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.

Tammy Baldwin: We need to build upon the Affordable Care Act

Hovde: I'm the one who was against Big Pharma. It's your Wall Street partner who invests in Big Pharma. You oversee it and take massive amounts of money. I can't even believe she would say that I don't want to negotiate against drug prices. I think drug prices are wildly too high. I will actually do something about it because I'm not taking Big Pharma money. I'm not taking special-interest money. Her partner is making money off of it and doesn't even disclose the profit she's making.