Stay updated with breaking news from Dolores mcdaniel. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Covers labor for bloomberg law. Let me begin with a question front and center in the Democratic Party the debate for medication medicaid , who arefor all advocating a public option and keeping private insurance. What is your view . I thought it created a false choice between Union Members who bargained Health Care Benefits and millions of americans who have enjoyed the expansion of health care through the medicaid system. For decades, our members have been fighting for health in this nation and i think the best of the democratic bait is when we stick to the principal of how are we going to cover americans with quality, Affordable Health care for everyone. Host you support private Health Insurance al ....
But it is a high, i started today giving a eulogy for my aunt, who great was born and raised in des moines. I am not the first in my family to be at the iowa state fair. Loreay the lord goes, goes, my grandmother and great , and that they took second prize to Shirley Temple back then. [laughter] sen. Booker i will not saying, but i am proud of those iowa roots. As i said at the eulogy this morning when we buried a 100yearold iowan, the story of the states the story of the country. My family came here, they were called miners in alabama, and they moved to a town called buxton, iowa. Many of you know buxton because there is a book that calls it the american utopia. There was a time in the late 1800s when blacks migrating from the south and european immigrants joined together in an integrated town well before its time. It is evidence of the best of who we are as a nation. Struggling black and white who went down into a out of theto d ....
Weld. Joining us from las vegas is the president of the Service Employees international union, mary kay henry. Joining us here in our question is ginger gibson, the political reporter for reuters. And bloomberg laws reporter. Thank you for being with us on newsmakers. Let me bring you a question front and center in the democratic party, medicare for all being proposed by Bernie Sanders versus former Vice President joe biden advocating a public option, but also keeping private Health Insurance. What is your view . I thought the debate in detroit created a false choice between those Union Members who bargain Health Care Benefits directly with their ....
That is why we are making demands for all. Do you worry that if the democrats nominated candidate supporting Public Health insurance for all would go down in defeat . I think the candidate chosen will be because working people have been in the streets mobilizing and backing a candidate because, what we want are concrete plans and actions to bargain a better life for ourselves and our families. That is a fundamental value of all working people in this economy. I think we will see someone emerge from the democratic field that has the full support of working people and we need bold ideas, because the level of any inequality in this country has just gotten so severe that we want to see the democrats speak to concrete ways that all working people have Affordable Health care coverage, that we will be able to secure a future for our families and the next generation, and we will ge ....
Reporter for reuters. And bloomberg laws reporter. Thank you for being with us on newsmakers. Let me bring you a question front and center in the democratic party, medicare for all being proposed by Bernie Sanders versus former Vice President joe biden advocating a public option, but also keeping private Health Insurance. What is your view . I thought the debate in detroit created a false choice between those Union Members who bargain Health Care Benefits directly with their employers and millions of americans who have enjoyed the expansion of health care through the medicaid system. For decades our members have been fighting for health care for everyone in this nation and i think the best of the democra ....