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Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. if you go back to that republican party post -- if you reverse the messaging on the expensive burrito, their promise is essentially we will bring down the wages of chipotle workers. if you put it that way, it doesn't sound so appealing, does it? sarah nelson, robert risch, author of "the system who rigged it" and they both join me now. sarah, let me start with you. you're representing folks in a sector that were seeing a lot of tumult. the industry was obviously utterly hammered last year, and when you look at that consumer price index, you look...
Have to grow the labor movement. this is what president biden is saying and he's absolutely right. if we don't grow that sustained labor movement where workers can bargain for health care and vacation and things that make it a meaningful life, then those things can change. the corporate elite can change them any day. so, you can have a whole bunch of worker power that gained something in one month and is taken away in the next month if you don't have a union and the contract that is in black and white, just like those executives demand for themselves. >> robert, do you think -- i mean, the que...
Robert risch how is that not mean to make americans pay more and more for health insurance. >> are those the only two options? either no obamacare or this plan? isn't there another way to change obamacare and give some confidence to the market? >> i don't think so, anderson. the democrats say yes, but we can put band-aids on it. no, when you've got one-third of americans living in counties now that don't have any obamacare insurer, when you've got people's insurance premiums doubling, what is this health care bill called? it's called the affordable care act. but the insurance under the afforda...
To lose, or have already by the time you have the 2018 midterm elections, have already lost their health care. this is not only immoral, this is also something that is politically very, very damaging for the republicans. >> steve, if this is such a good bill, why isn't it a slam dunk for republicans, if every republican was onboard, the bill would pass? >> well, they do have to get 50 senators, no question about that. so they can only lose two. the math is there. but look, i want to get back to the issue of people losing their insurance. i think the thing that's surreal about this whole discus...