#shorts #unions #m4a - Unions need to make some tough choices if Medicare For All is ever going to become a real thing in the United States. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss.
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Sam Seder: Unions need to sever their relationship with health insurance for their to be Medicare for All. We cannot have a situation where unions are also an obstacle. They're not the primary obstacle, I don't think they're even a secondary obstacle. The unions inhibited New York state's push for Medicare for All. And part of that is because I think there is a fear in certain quarters in unions and union movements and unions as institutions that their value add proposition is health insurance.
Emma Vigeland: Well it's also just the cudgel that they use... Some union heads have relationships with Democratic leaders, and there's a bit of — we saw this in terms of just messaging from some Democratic politicians — they'll use union health care plans, which are better, as a way to fearmonger about Medicare for All and health insurance and it has a chilling effect. The solution is stronger union protections, not at the exclusion of a health care push.