Students at the University of Minnesota-Duluth who organized a Bulldogs for Bernie group hosted a panel discussion with Virginia Dooley, MD and Micheal Lighty over the lunch hours today.
Below is a quick upload of relatively raw video of their introductory statements.
Medicare for All is part of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party platform, was a popular priority of Rick Nolan, the last Democrat elected to Congress from Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District, and is big part of my campaign to retake the seat from Rep. Pete Stauber.
If you are fired up for healthcare as a human right, you can sign up for GOTV shifts this weekend for Tuesday’s Presidential Primary: map.berniesanders.com
There are canvasses running across the district including Duluth, Cloquet, Bemidji, Brainerd, Hibbing, Virginia and Grand Rapids. We can do this. Amy Klobuchar opposes the DFL party platform on healthcare and it is imperative that folks who are leaning Bernie or Warren realize Warren is not viable in Greater Minnesota according to recent polls, e.g. MPRnews/Star Tribune. Bernie can win for Medicare for All very decisively if people get off the fence and commit to a little bit more of the work we did for so long to get Medicare for All and the MN Health Plan into our Action Agenda. If Klobuchar wins MN, it gets easier for healthcare lobbyists to suppress the platform plank or strip it from the resolutions ballot before the state convention. It is due to be reaffirmed this year, or it drops off the Action Agenda.
A vote for Bernie on Tuesday is a vote to make Medicare better and make healthcare available to all present in the U.S.