Moderate Democratic candidates opposed to “Medicare for All” have cast the plan as anti-labor. But not all labor unions agree.
Joe Biden and other moderate Democratic candidates opposed to “Medicare for All” have cast the plan as anti-labor, arguing it would leave union members worse off byBut not all labor unions agree.Only a few major unions have come out against the single-payer system that would all but eliminate private insurance, while many others remain undecided and some of the biggest labor groups in the country have embraced the plan.
It's true that union workers are wary of giving up hard-won benefits, even when promised a plan that covers more services for less money. That’s why Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris , former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Rep. Tim Ryan , Sen. Michael Bennet and former Rep. John Delaney, among others, have invoked organized labor in recent debates and candidate forums to argue against mandatory single-payer health insurance.
“Not only have health insurance premiums risen every year for the 30 years I've been involved with the union, there’s also been steady cost-shifting from the government to the workers,” said Jacqueline Simon, the AFGE’s public policy director. “We recognize that the enormous premiums federal employees are required to pay are far higher than what they’d pay in new taxes under Medicare for All. They would come out ahead, unequivocally.
“We are supporting any policy proposal or legislation that moves us in the direction of universal coverage,” Leslie Frane, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, told POLITICO.
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