The Republican candidate for Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate seat, Eric Hovde, has made his virulent opposition to the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare” one of his raisons d’etre and – the hope is that he keeps losing principally because he opposes the life-saving program.

In those halcyon days in 2012 – when the ACA was the bane of all Republicans’ existence, Hovde said he didn’t support anything about it—including its coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions or allowing people to stay on their family’s insurance until age 26.

Under Hoyde’s line of thinking, people with lifelong migraines, or even worse, lifelong pain due to injuries, were… well, shit out of luck, except it’s not luck – it’s that such patients are prohibited from care for their maladies and thus out of empathy by the richest nation on earth who could trade in two of over a dozen aircraft carriers and pay for the program fully.

But it gets better, or worse – well, worse in a newly resurfaced video that shows Hovde proposing enacting an especially cruel health-care measure: Charging higher premiums for people living with obesity and reducing the amount of care they receive. From Yahoo News we get the exact sentence:

“You become obese, your health care is going to cost more.”

Here is the thing, or – at least one thing. Many people do not “become” obese, they simply get more obese because that is their body type and, no matter the amount of exercise or diet, they are not becoming thin. One need only look at young NCAA college athletes who work out constantly and yet some are heavier. It is all in one’s genes. The other positive feeback loop is that the poor often don’t have the ability to buy more quality food – fresh meat and vegetables, the type that keep someone slim. Instead, they (“we”) are often forced to eat “filler” – cheap meals that are high calorie, full of rice and beans or potatos.

But to this guy, obesity is a choice – similar to the choice of being a man:

“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.”

So, the extremely wealthy Mr. Hoyde sits back, so self-satisfied, and wants to penalize people he doesn’t know, people who may be healthier than him – all things but the scale being unimportant, and – most importantly, the extremely wealthy man unwilling to support a program that grants healthcare to the extremely poor – writers, or obese people like Donald…

We will leave it at that, this story stinks enough.

Jason Miciak is an editor at large for Occupy Democrats who freelances for friends at Political Flare.