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Posted on 02/16/2020 3:03:49 PM PST by karpov
LAS VEGAS — Senator Bernie Sanders is a longtime supporter of “Medicare for all.” “I wrote the damn bill,” he said on a debate stage last summer, and his support for universal health care has helped propel him to the front of the 2020 Democratic field.
But in Nevada, where the race heads next, his signature policy is a liability with the largest labor union in the state. And the union has enthusiastic allies in Mr. Sanders’s opponents.
On Friday morning, moments after Senator Amy Klobuchar finished a tour of the health care facility run by the culinary workers’ union, she began to lace into Mr. Sanders and his focus on the proposal, which would effectively eliminate union members’ current health care system.
It is unwise and unrealistic, she argued, to eliminate the private health insurance that millions of Americans now use — or to think such a measure could pass.
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[T]he offensive against the Vermont senator also highlighted some of his most glaring vulnerabilities: The culinary union, which represents many of the workers in Las Vegas’s casinos, is opposed to his single-payer plan. And after its leaders stated that opposition, they were met with the sort of scathing and personal invective that critics of Mr. Sanders often receive.
Culinary Workers Local 226, which is 60,000 members strong and over half Latino, is perhaps the most powerful force in Democratic politics in this state. And there is no benefit its members cherish more than the health care coverage they’ve won in their contract negotiations.
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But leaders of the culinary union say his plan would hurt members and their families. After years of organizing, difficult negotiations and multiple strikes, the union won a generous private health insurance plan that leaders are loath to give up.
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Unions have backed Leftist policy for decades. They’ve been out on the streets with clubs.
Now they can’t stomach Communism?
Really?
They just figured it out after all this time?
Re: Now they can’t stomach Communism?
Actually they can stomach it. Just don’t touch their superior insurance plan.
My thoughts exactly. What a bunch of loons.
I have a feeling that a lot more unions in a lot more states will feel the same way.
Stupid Unions beholden to DemoRats. Try voting Trump who’s policies are good for unions — hello.
I was a contractor once. Did concrete work. A guy called me for an estimate on a new concrete driveway. I was open shop, but he had all kinds of "Union - Yes" bumper stickers on his vehicles. So I asked him (maybe a little snarky), would you like me to give you a quote using union scale labor? This would have made the driveway price something like 50% to 60% higher than my normal quote. He looked at me like I had a horn sticking out of my forehead. He wanted to know if he could get it cheaper (than my normal rate) if he paid in cash...
This is real bad news for Burnie. Nevada is a union machine state. He could lose the state if he loses the union bosses.
That’s going to be really difficult if you are truly talking about a single payer system. That means all private insurance goes away and personal doctors with it. I know there were a lot of carve outs for BHOs buddies in Obamacare but that was a different system entirely.
This is such BS now they trying to sell this narrative that Bernie is the outlier and the rest if em are reasonable moderates. Every one of them said they were for Medicare for all.
Ladies and gentlemen... The Candidates!
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-PJ
Yeah...
It shocks me the people who didn’t see this coming.
LOL, I know what you mean.
I’m sure that’s true.
Perhaps they are not endorsing a Dem candidate BECAUSE things are much better for them with Trump at the helm!!!
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