"Every single day you go to work, you are there when our babies are born, you are there when people become ill or suffer terrible accidents, you are there in the last days of people's lives," said presidential candidate Barry Sanders. "You are the backbone of the American health care system, you do fantastic and compassionate work," he told members of the National Nurses United union. (Photo by Scott Morris)

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined his plan to convert the country’s health care system to a single-payer system as he accepted the National Nurses United union’s endorsement for president in Oakland last month.

His speech to the nurses almost exclusively focused on health care and his plan to expand the Medicare system to all Americans, which received enthusiastic support from the hundreds of health care professionals in attendance.

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