Medicare for All will almost certainly come up during the Democratic debate in Nevada.
Maureen Groppe, Ledyard King, Ed Komenda and James DeHavenRENO, Nev. –"Medicare for All," the proposal for government-run health care central to Sen. Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, is front and center as the Democratic candidates move to Nevada before Saturday's caucuses.
The other candidates seek to benefit from the fact that the powerful Culinary Union, the state’s largest labor organization, criticized Medicare for All. The union fears workers would have to give up their hard-fought health care benefits for coverage that might not be as good. “When I go to the doctor, I don’t have a co-payment,” Minero told the USA TODAY Network. “I love it.”
A poll taken this month by the Las Vegas Review-Journal shows Sanders leading the field in Nevada with a plurality of support, while the more moderate candidates divide the majority of the vote. “Others say it’s Medicare for All or nothing,” Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, says in one of his Nevada ads. “I approved this message to say, the choice should be yours.”
“They’re losing wage increases because the cost of health care is soaring,” Sanders said on MSNBC Feb. 12. “So I think the future for unions is through Medicare for All.”Unions weigh in The union didn’t back a candidate in the 2016 primary between Sanders and Clinton, but it sent organizers to the caucus, and Clinton won at all six caucus sites in casinos. That helped Clinton win Nevada – where Sanders had a big lead – and slow his momentum.For voters, Bernie Sanders outranks other Democrats – and Trump – on values, empathy
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