The other thing I want to point out, is there are a lot of people in this country that have very good health insurance from their employer. There are a lot of unions. They have negotiated that health insurance that have given up salaries for that health insurance, so, don't read this as left and right. Read it as the complexity to get to the goal we want, which is universal health care.

Donna Shalala

Donna Edna Shalala ( sh?-LAY-l?; born February 14, 1941) is a politician who served as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously she was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1988 to 1993. Shalala currently serves as Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami, and was President of the Clinton Foundation from 2015 to March 2017.In 2018, she became the Democratic nominee for Florida's 27th Congressional District.

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