Florida Dem Gov. Candidate Gillum Wants to Abolish ICE & Implement Single-Payer Health Care

‘I am a champion for treating health care as a right, not a privilege’

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BERMAN: "In a Democratic primary. The question is will it work in a general election? And they're coming for you. They're already coming for you based on your message. Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee, had a statement last night about you, Andrew Gillum. He says you want 'to abolish ICE.' You do, correct?"
GILLUM: "We want to replace ICE with the Department of Justice."
BERMAN: "OK."
GILLUM: "An entity that has not been tarnished in the same way as ICE has."
BERMAN: "So again -- so that -- he says you want to abolish ICE, you say you want to replace it. That's basically the same thing. He says you a billion-dollar tax increase. He says you want single-payer health care system in Florida. You do want Medicare for all, correct?"
GILLUM: "I am a champion for treating health care as a right and not a privilege. That's absolutely right. And expanding Medicaid in the state of Florida for over 700,000 people who right now don't have access to health care, which costs this state about $6 billion in federal money that should be coming to Florida that right now is being distributed to other states. But I have to believe that that's not left or right or center -- that that's basic and common for the everyday people of this state. They need it."
BERMAN: "Yes."
GILLUM: "And as governor, it's my job to deliver that."

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