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Head of nurses union 'counting on' Trump for single-payer system
By CARLA MARINUCCI 01/05/2017 10:04 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2017/01/political-powerful-nurses-union-head-im-counting-on-trump-for-real-health-care-reform-108511
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OAKLAND As Washington grapples with health care policy again, the head of the 185,000-member National Nurses United is turning her attention to a seemingly unlikely advocate for a single-payer system. "The one Im counting on the most is Trump, RoseAnn DeMoro said,
DeMoro, who serves as executive director of both the Oakland-based National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, told POLITICO California on Thursday that she is disgusted with Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and believes that the president-elect may actually get action.
Hes a businessman, he has an international perspective and his wife comes from a country where they have single payer, said DeMoro, who also is an AFL-CIO national vice president and executive board member. I think that Donald Trump is not about either party; hes about something very different. Hes the one who can actually rise above this and do whats right, and he knows as a businessman, its the most cost effective, she said.
And, she noted, Trump already has signaled to GOP party leaders that hes willing to buck them on issues like ethics and the TransPacific Partnership.
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