“A lot of people don’t understand why our health care is important to us. It’s because they’ve never had it,” a member of the Culinary Workers Union says. “Our health care covers everything that we have, everything that you could possibly have.”
, but Harry Reid, the longtime senator from Nevada and former Democratic leader who opposes Medicare for All, told NBC News that “a lot can change and will change.”
He said that if advocates offered specifics on how Medicare for All would, for example, make it easier to change jobs and keep people from losing coverage due to an injury or time off work, it would help calm the anxieties of union members.Sanders appears to be following that same playbook in recent weeks, talking up
“When you are in a union, your union negotiators will not have to spend half of their time trying to protect the health care benefits that you have. You can start talking about increasing wages and pensions and better working conditions,” Sanders said last week in a teleconference town hall with the League of United Latin American Citizens.
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