Warren tells Culinary Union members 'experience' of their union health care won't change

[brooklynite]

Nevada Independent

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Monday that she was “just totally knocked out” during a tour of the politically powerful Culinary union’s health facility, but she remained vague about whether the labor organization’s Cadillac-standard health plan would continue to exist under the health care future she envisions for the country.

Warren, whose comments came during an evening town hall, told union members “what you experience, what you count on for yourself and your family [isn’t] supposed to change” under the single-payer, government-run health care plan she backs, often referred to as Medicare for all. What would change, she told them, is how it’s paid for.

“Because here’s my bottom line about this,” Warren said. “We need to ask those at the very top, the top 1 percent, the big corporations — my personal favorite — the tax cheats, to kick in a little more, so we can afford health care for everybody in this country.”

Warren is the second Democratic presidential hopeful the union has hosted at its Las Vegas headquarters. The union could be pivotal in Nevada’s first-in-the West caucus on Feb. 22, and the president of its parent union told The Nevada Independent he hopes to endorse before then.

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1. [isn't] supposed to change

Uh huh

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2. From Forbes : Flashback from July 15 , 2013

' Labor Unions :ObamaCare Will shatter our Health Benefits, Cause Nightmare Scenarios ' / MFA will free unions to seek for and receive real wage increases