Dem El-Sayed on Private Health Insurance: Medicare for All Is Not About What It Takes Away, It‘s About What It Offers

RUSH EXCERPT:
EL-SAYED: "No. Not necessarily. I travel the state and I talk to union members all the time who say, look, we gave up increases in wages to be able to win good health care, and we‘re worried about what that might mean to me. Medicare for all is not about what it takes away. It‘s about what it offers. Guaranteed health insurance from cradle to grave that you don‘t lose by turning 26 or turning 65, or getting married, getting divorced, getting a job, losing a job. It‘s there for you as you need it, and it will be good wherever you need to get your health care. It‘s not about taking anything away, it‘s about adding the guarantee, the security of having health insurance in your life in the way that seniors across this country have been able to benefit from. And it would make this more sustainable for seniors as well. The best single thing you could do to make Medicare more sustainable for our seniors is to make sure young people who tend to pay more into the system than they take out are in that system. Instead of paying money into the pockets of health insurance CEOs."