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earlier in this hour we heard the
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results of a detailed survey done with
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working-class voters in Ohio
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obviously a swing state obviously an
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important state on the issues that
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mattered to them and what we heard was
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that about a third of them can’t be
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moved because they’re just rock hard
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right winter is racist whatever and we
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heard that there are at least a third of
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them who definitely can be moved
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including some former Trump voters as
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well as a working-class voters of other
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kinds and we learned that these movable
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voters are not only unafraid of big
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ideas they love big ideas now they’re
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not deep into the policy details but
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they love the idea of a green new deal
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they love the idea of Medicare for all
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and so on so the question is how do we
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reach these reachable voters and why
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would be.we be afraid of the ideas they
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embrace but we have an entire
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politically political industry that
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includes the Republican Party and large
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chunks of the Democratic designed to
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make them afraid of big ideas and that
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is what we need to fight I’m gonna
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suggest here’s one way to fight it by
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telling them simple plain truths about
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policies like Medicare for all and like
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the green new deal and I want to talk a
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little bit about Medicare for all for a
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very specific reason I used to work and
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some of you may know in the health
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insurance field and related fields
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and I used survives large corporations
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worked for large corporations I’m not
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proud of it but I guess the information
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it’s useful now I’m not ashamed of it
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either it’s just in what I what I was
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aware of at the time and then an
anecdote came to mind recently which I
talked about at a Tedder of speech I
gave the other day and I want to share
it with you now because I was asked to
come in and advise in the 1990s one of
the most powerful CEOs in the country
ran an entire insurance Empire himself
and he
called in his advisors of which I was
considered one and he had all these
ideas for the employee health plan and
benefit plan cafeteria plans and flex
plans these were all buzzwords that were
around then and choices and options and
lists and and the group of people around
him many of whom were human resource
professionals didn’t even know what he
was driving at with all of this except
that he was using the terms so as the
then young and sort of brash person in
the room I said excuse me what exactly
are you trying to accomplish with the
employees here with all of this and he
said I want to give them less and make
them think it’s more now that phrase is
always stuck with me and I wanted to
stick with you if you’re willing I want
to give them less and make them think
it’s more choice is a game that is often
used to give us less and make us think
it’s more what should we have when it
comes to medical care we should have the
treatment we need when we need it by the
doctor we want at the facility that’s
best for us with the medication we need
we don’t need quote unquote choice of
insurance companies to see if they can
provide us any of those things and we
can’t use that information because we
most of the time don’t have any idea
what our upcoming health needs are gonna
be it’s a game they want to give you
less and make you think it’s more so if
nothing else fine part nothing else to
you from all of this
I want please when you hear a candidate
say as people to judge says I don’t
support Medicare for all I support
Medicare for all who want it I want you
to hear he wants to give me less and
make me think it’s more when a candidate
tells you that Medicare for all is too
expensive when despite saving lives it
would cost less I want you to hear they
want to give me less
make me think it’s more and when a
candidate is asked do you support
Medicare for all and they answer I
support a lot of plans I want you to
hear that candidate wants to give me
less and make me think it’s more now why
would we want that why would we not want
to have what we need and know in advance
what it is there is no reason in this
world not to support Medicare for all
and every reason to support it now there
is one ideological reason I have to be
perfectly honest which is that Medicare
for all gives Democratic control to a
large segment of the economy that has
been operating in secret largely for the
private enrichment of a few now if
ideologically you believe that’s the way
the world ought to work if you’re a
libertarian if you think the private
executives somewhere should have the
right to make life-and-death decisions
about you and your family yes by all
means you should support Medicare for
all everybody else I mean he should
oppose Medicare for all everybody else
of course should support it