North Dakota unions rally for health care

As part of its annual convention, North Dakota AFL-CIO’s members took to a Bismarck street corner to rally for affordable health care.

Chants of “health care not wealth care” and “Where is Hoeven?” rang out from the crowd of roughly 50 people gathered on one side of State Street Wednesday.

The American Health Care Act already passed the House, and some version is going to come through the Senate, according to North Dakota AFL-CIO President Waylon Hedegaard, who said the union is frustrated that Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., has held no town hall.

“He’s had roundtables,” Hedegaard said, but those events have been poorly publicized and “carefully scripted.”

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