This is from Physicians for a National Health Plan:
>>Our universal single-payer health care legislation in California
>>(SB840-Kuehl) includes the undocumented.....
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>>Our universal single-payer health care legislation in California
>>(SB840-Kuehl) covers abortion services.....
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>>SEIU endorses SB840-Kuehl
Which is great and contradicts Fitch's and your point. SEIU resisted single payer plans as long as they were impartial and ignored immigrant worker needs, but then endorsed a single payer plan that covers them. (I checked and found that 1199 has endorsed a single payer plan in Rhode Island that also is comprehensive).
So maybe folks like Fitch will retroactively credit the unions with more good faith in their political judgements on health care policy.
Sure, their are bureaucratic interests in keeping people on payroll to do health plan administration, but a lot of that is idealistic bureaucratic interests. I worked (thankfully not long) at a union side law firm where health care plan benefit work paid a lot of the bills, leaving the lawyers time to work on the union and labor issues that had little payday attached.
Nathan Newman