The universal health plan proposed by Bernie Sanders, Medicare for All, has generated a debate on the stage among the candidates after they asked the Vermont senator about the insults and threats that some of his followers launched on the social networks to two leaders of the Culinary Union, the leading union of casino and hotel workers in Las Vegas.
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“We are responsible for our supporters and we need to take a step forward,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren told her.
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“You have to accept some responsibility and ask yourself what happens in particular with your campaign that motivates this type of behavior more than in others because to turn the page in the Trump era, we will need a president who can move forward,” he said by the former mayor of South Bend (Indiana), Pete Buttigieg.
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For its part, Sanders minimized insults that denounced the leader of the Geoconda Argüello Kline union, and the communications manager, Bethany Khan, after her organization issued some leaflets that warned that Medicare for All could end the good health insurance that her union has achieved thanks to years of struggle.
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“I have more than 10.6 million followers on Twitter and 99% are decent people,” Sanders said and regretted that the African-American women in his campaign are also subject to “the most horrible racist attacks.”
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“We have to do everything possible to end these vicious attacks.”
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Regarding Medicare for All, he said that what he seeks is to guarantee access to health for the entire population and that he would not sign any plan that takes the benefits from the workers who already have them.
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In an interview with Univision News on Wednesday, the leader of the Geoconda Argüello Kline union, of Nicaraguan origin, said that her organization, which has not supported any specific candidate for Saturday’s caucus, rejects any program that imposes the type of insurance health workers must have.
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