The AFSCME conference this weekend promoted the union’s “5% Solution” for affordable health care. The goal is to have no Minnesota spend more than 5% of their income on health care - a figure that regularly reaches 25% now.

They also heard Al Franken, AFSCME-endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate, describe his ideas for health care reform.

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Franken described heartbreaking encounters with people across the state, from a diabetic woman in Fergus Falls who shares insulin with her son, who also has the disease but can’t afford insurance, to a teenager facing renal failure because her family can’t afford her medication.

“We are going to address this, because this is a shame,” Franken declared.

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