'For profit healthcare doesn't work, @PeteButtigieg. It's killing people & putting working people in financial ruin,' Sara Nelson tweeted.
"This is offensive and dangerous. Stop perpetuating this gross myth. Not every union member has union healthcare plans that protect them. Those that do have it, have to fight like hell to keep it. If you believe in Labor then you'd understand an injury to one is an injury to all," the union president wrote.
Last August, Nelson asserted in an interview with Hill.TV that Medicare for All enjoyed"broad support" within the union community."This is really something that is very unifying for union members across the country and for all the people that they care about who are not union members and don't have access to the same health care," she said.
The Sanders campaign has regularly touted its growing list of national, state-level and local union endorsements. On the national level, the campaign has been formally backed by the American Postal Workers Union, National Nurses United, National Union of Healthcare Workers and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.Win McNamee/Getty
Many union members nationwide have raised concerns that Sanders' plan, saying it would do away with health care benefits that they've won through significant negotiating efforts. But some analysts and union leaders have concluded that a Medicare for All system would actually provide better health care for most union workers across the country.
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