Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner.
By Doug Cunningham
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SEIU Healthcare and a coalition of other groups are calling on the state of Illinois to sue Wall Street Banks. They say it’s to recover money lost in predatory financial deals.
The grassroots coalition is also calling on Gov. Bruce Rauner to not sign away the state’s right to sue the banks in any new deals struck with Wall Street.
SEIU wants the state to sue the banks and the union says in other cases the tactic has succeeded. SEIU also says there needs to be greater transparency into these deals before they are signed.
Colorado’s Health Care For All Ballot Amendment Is ‘Very Close’
Big business money—including millions from Anthem—is being used to fight hard against a very close ballot initiative in Colorado.
Amendment 69 would create single payer health insurance for all who live in Colorado—a Medicare for all kind of plan called ColoradoCare.
“It’s very close. It’s just as close as a state can get. And we’re working hard. We have just a few days to go and a lot of ballots are being sent in now. So we’re working very hard to canvass and phone call and reach out to people,” said Donna Smith of Health Care For All Colorado. “But as you might expect the usual suspects are raising opposition. We’ve had insurance companies—Anthem has spent millions of dollars already and had committed to spending millions more if they wanted to.”