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Kelda Roys: “Opening up the state health insurance plan and the state…”

Featuring: Kelda Roys, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 26

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Published | Video Starts at 17:57

Those are two huge economic issues that hold back young people and middle aged people from feeling like they're able to be free to thrive. And Opening up the state health insurance plan and the state pension to anybody, to be able to buy in at a fair rate not only strengthens those programs, but enables people to...leave your corporate job to go start a business. Right. Become an entrepreneur, take time out of the workforce to be a caregiver for a parent or a child. Go back to school if you want to. Right. (17:57–18:11)

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Asserts that allowing public buy-in to state health insurance and pension plans would strengthen these programs and promote entrepreneurship.

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