BREAKING: Culinary responds to attacks by Bernie Sanders supporters

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[dem4decades]

1. Great way to make friends. My way or the highway is no way to win an election.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. They need to make an endorsement or get off the pot.

To mix metaphors.

[squirecam]

3. They are endorsing

The healthcare plan their members benefit from most.

The don’t have to pick one candidate.

[FloridaBlues]

7. They may not endorse before the primaries, not a given they will.

[Cha]

40. They need to Not be harassed and doxed.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. About time Culinary fired back .

As a Teamster Rep for a few decades and being on the Health and Welfare Negotiating Team,we administered our own Health and Welfare Program with the help of a Private Administrator. Don't think the Ladies and Gentleman of those Shops who have first dollar of maybe a five dollar co-pay are about to give that up. And the Culinary Workers have similiar Insurance coverage.

Do these M4All people understand that people are not about to pay 25 hundred dollars out of pocket before coverage kicks in,or only cover 80% of the total bill. Geese,it is not going to happen. BTW,M4 all is going to cost you at least 144 dollars per person per month.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Supporters of a certain candidate ...

Supporters of a certain candidate are saying union leaders are lining their pockets with the money they make from administering the insurance.

Also, I thought there would be no co-pays with M4All.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Do know about the Pocket lining in all the years

I served on that Team. Heard rumors about a UAW issue,but again,the rank and file figure those issues out with in minutes. And Yes,M4 all as it stands this minute would have co-pays in many states. Here in Nevada(Clark County)we are zero with United Health. Don't know about other Counties. This zero co-pay came as a Harry Reid getting involved years ago.

Again,the usual source of anything negative about Unions comes from K Street and anything Koch or Walmart funded.

[jr1118x]

27. What copay if BS proposing?

https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/

No networks, no deductibles, no copay

[Wellstone ruled]

29. Don't think he himself even knows.

Could see expansion of ACA and reducing costs,while at the same time putting in place a Single payer system. The co-pays are the least of any Insurance .

[jr1118x]

31. Why are we the only developed country that has to make healthcare a racket

Maybe we should tell Canada and England that they are doing it wrong and they need to switch to a 2 class healthcare system so the Insurance company and doctor lobbies can enriched the politicians, and offer a sub-par medical plan for poorer people with astronomical deductibles. Don't even get started on big Pharma. We are holding people hostage so that the politicians and insurance companies get rich while our fellow citizens die or have to ration life saving medicine like insulin because they cannot afford the very thing to keep them alive.

[Wellstone ruled]

32. This whole shit show started during the Kennedy years.

Senator Hubert Humphrey came with the Swede Norwegian model legislation during that time frame. Vietnam and a assassination was the game changer according to one of his Sons whom lived in our neighborhood at that time.

The Insurance Companies went nuts and cranked up their Lobby Shops targeting each and every Dem as a Socialist Communist politician. The Rethugs have that single payer as their campaign fund raiser.

[LonePirate]

10. You don't seem to understand M4A given your statements.

There is no $2500 out of pocket expense or deductible before coverage kicks in. Also, M4A pays 100% of everything - primary care, emergency care, prescriptions, specialists, therapy, etc.

I’m not sure where you are getting your information, but it’s no wonder you dislike that plan, given how it is nothing like M4A.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Preventative is full dollar covered.

Unless you carry a supplemental we would have to pay 25 hundred for anything major or 20% of the total . This is our State Rule.

[LonePirate]

12. A state rule that would no longer be in effect under a national M4A plan.

You really should read up on MFA plans offered by Warren and Sanders. It would probably be eye opening for you.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Okay.

Will do,and the Insurance Industry will be the major impediment. Hope full at best.

[LonePirate]

17. Oh yeah, the insurance industry is adamantly opposed to the extinction level event known as M4A

The fact that we have DUers on the side of the insurance industry instead of being on the side of Americans tells you everything you need to know about the war they will wage against M4A.

[Wellstone ruled]

22. Well I for one

despise those leaches. Had to put up with their BS for years when Contract re-openers hit. But,the bottom line,we had the facts in our files on hard copies and our data always ruled the day. Our Payments required a four person sign off in our Local and they generally dropped their BS after about ten minutes knowing there was some one else waiting in the wings for our business.

What makes Politicians suckers is,the need for campaign cash. That in it's self is the real story.

[Progressive dog]

15. It was about time,

anyone who has ever been a union member knows that union members traded raises for those health insurance benefits. The unions forced other employers to give health insurance as a benefit to stay competitive. If I were still working, I would not give up my health insurance willingly.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Yes we did and so did they.

Hey,walked a couple Pickett lines at our local Casino's. You have to really respect the Honesty and the dedication of the Culinary folks. And when you happen to go to a Union Hotel Casino,they recognize you with a thank you.

[apcalc]

26. Me either. Our union negotiated excellent coverage.

[progressoid]

20. 144 dollars per person per month? I'll take that!!

The average monthly cost of health insurance (including employer and employee contributions) for an individual in 2018 was $574 per month and family coverage averaged $1,634.

?resize=698,525

[Wellstone ruled]

23. That is why my Spousr and I

are so friggin glad to be out of the rat race. Have two Kids that are being smacked with those type of prices.

People have to realize this is what happens when one tries to be friends with the Opposition Party .

[progressoid]

24. That's nice that you got yours.

I've been a supporter of unions my whole life. The teacher's union helped my parents greatly. Unfortunately, there isn't anything like that for my wife and me. Like 85% of the workforce in NV who aren't members of a union, we just have to grin and bear it because MFA is too expensive and unreasonable.

So we will continue to pay over 3 times that $144 per month. On the plus side, this year our annual deductible (that we also can't afford) went down from 10K a year to 8K.

[aikoaiko]

30. That's not much less than what I pay and I'm not in a union.

I'm on a family PPO and I pay $8000 for my contribution.

[still_one]

5. Interesting strategy. Dis what they characterize as centrists Democrats,, dis the DNC, boo Mayor Pe

Boo Amy, Boo Hillary, dis anyone who doesn't follow the Bernie doctrine

What a unique strategy for unifying the party

[NurseJackie]

8. Oh, I think the BS campaign should continue to ATTACK THE UNION!

Do it! Do it! No harm can come from it! What have they got to lose?

Which reminds me... I wonder how Dolores Huerta is doing these days?

[squirecam]

14. They should have stormed the copy room to take the flyers.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/sanders-staffers-posed-as-union-members-in-vegas-218351

[apcalc]

28. Attack the union-that'll get 'em to endorse you!

Yes, then they will be on your side.

WTF are they thinking? Are they not thinking?

Or are they dumber than a stump?

[Cha]

18. KR!!! Go Culinary Union!

[Blue_Tires]

19. I see Intercept stooge Ryan Grim

has been trying to put out the fire by pouring liquid butane on it... This is why I honestly question whether Sanders is ready for prime time...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. Oh noes. More mean anonymous twitter peoples.

[Gothmog]

25. sanders supporters were busy

Link to tweet

[Cha]

33. Yeah.

[Peacetrain]

35. And another reason you will NEVER see Bernie Sanders picture on my page

[Cha]

36. Ikr

[Gothmog]

34. There is a pattern

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Gothmog]

37. Biden calls on Sanders to take accountability for supporters' threats

Link to tweet

Joe Biden called on Bernie Sanders to accept greater accountability for tactics and rhetoric of his staunchest supporters and do more to discourage it, after what he called the “outrageous” threats on a prominent union that criticized his healthcare plan.

Representatives of the powerful Culinary Workers Union, which represents 60,000 workers supporting Nevada’s gaming and hospitality industries, said this week that supporters of the Vermont senator had “viciously attacked” its members after its leadership warned about the risk to their negotiated health plans under a Medicare for All system.

In an exclusive interview airing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Biden said the Vermont senator “may not be responsible for it, but he has some accountability.”

“You know me well enough to know if any of my supporters did that, I’d disown them. Flat disown them,” Biden said. “The stuff that was said online. The way they threatened these two women who are leaders in that Culinary union. It is outrageous. Just — just go online.”

[Gothmog]

38. I have to watch Meet the Press tomorrow

Link to tweet

[Scurrilous]

39. K&R

[Cha]

41. K