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Jul 31, 2019 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
In the past few days, some presidential candidates have suggested you can have Medicare for All or you can stick with labor — you can’t have both. Historically, labor’s position has been to remove healthcare from bargaining through a national health insurance program. Examples:
1/ Reuther, UAW: “For more than thirty years I have had the responsibility (together with my colleagues) in the UAW of sitting at the bargaining table and facing the largest corporations in the world. In the past ten years, we have placed increased emphasis upon health care...”