Harris touts union-friendly Medicare-for-all plan at town hall in Nevada w/ powerful Culinary Union

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California Sen. Kamala Harris lauded the Culinary Union’s hard-fought health insurance plan as “extraordinary” and promised that her version of Medicare-for-all wouldn’t take it away while at a town hall with the union’s members in Las Vegas on Friday night.

Harris, who has managed to thread the needle with her Medicare-for-all plan that would create a government-run health insurance system but also allow private insurers to compete within it, sought to draw a distinction between herself and more progressive presidential hopefuls who have proposed a single-payer health insurance system that would replace all existing insurance, including union plans.

“The health coverage and the insurance you have negotiated and bargained and sacrificed to get, I will not take that away,” Harris said, to significant applause from the crowd of a couple hundred red-shirted union members. “And to put a fine point on it, so on the debate stage there are a lot of people talking about Medicare for all. Well, the difference between what they’re talking about and my policy, I’m not going to get rid of private insurance.”

Harris said that it was the Culinary Union in Nevada and its parent union UNITE HERE that helped her form her health care plan.

Read more: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/harris-touts-union-friendly-medicare-for-all-plan-at-town-hall-with-powerful-culinary-union

[Andy823]

1. Thanks for posting this

She is in this all the way, and will continue to fight for the people.

[Andy823]

2. Kick. nt