Health care options debated at labor picnic

"What that means is you take Medicare and you expand and improve it in order to make it a national system," said Doug Bullock, an Albany County legislator and one of the organizers for the event. "We would keep the same doctors, but we would lose all of the insurance companies who have been wrongly making our medical decisions for us."

Congressional candidate Paul Tonko spent the afternoon with his constituents to show his support for their hard work and for the idea of single-payer health care.

On day honoring American workforce, local working citizens feel forgotten

Union leaders were lobbying for a change in health care this presidential election season. Advocating a single-payer plan, they also asked people to sign a card that would help streamline the process of starting a union at American workplaces.