By Doug Cunningham

The California Nurses Association says Senator Hillary Clinton’s health care plan just throws more people under the wheels of the health insurance system without fixing the fundamental problem – an out of control industry profiting off pain and illness with unaffordable health care. Geri Jenkins is on the CNA’s President’s Council.

[Jenkins]: “Hillary Clinton is the number one recipient of health care and pharmaceutical industry dollars of all the members of Congress. So I think that speaks volumes to why the system is the way it is that she's proposing."

Jenkins says the California Nurses Association wants a national single payer universal health care system – essentially an expansion of Medicare covering everyone. A New York Times CBS poll this year found that 64%
of Americans want the federal government to guarantee health insurance for all Americans, and 60% would pay higher taxes to do it. So if we the people want it, why can’t we get it?

[Jenkins 2]: “You don't see that translate into legislation because our members of our legislature and elected officials have pretty much been bought off by the industry. There shouldn't be money made on people's lives, whether people live or die coming down to some corporation's bottom line. And that's what happens with the insurance industry and their controlling the system."