Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed wants to give you "free" healthcare from cradle to grave — and he wants working Americans to foot the bill for a program so radical that not a single country on earth runs it the way he's selling it.
The Democratic front-runner to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters is pitching Medicare for All with zero premiums, zero copays, zero deductibles, zero networks, and zero out-of-pocket costs — a blank check from the Treasury that would make the current debt crisis look like a rounding error.
According to Breitbart News, El-Sayed laid out his vision plainly: "I think you need to guarantee health care for everyone, cradle to grave, without premium, copay, deductible. Medicare for all." He painted a picture of a card you get the day you're born that "doesn't expire until you expire" — no network, no cost out of pocket. "That's the security people need and deserve."
What El-Sayed doesn't mention: Medicare as it exists today doesn't work that way. Seniors pay Part B premiums, face deductibles, and shoulder coinsurance — and the program already bleeds red ink. Even the European welfare states socialists love to cite don't deliver what El-Sayed is promising. Germany mandates payroll contributions. Canadians buy supplemental coverage. France leans on private insurance. Japan requires significant patient cost-sharing. Not one of them offers the zero-cost utopia El-Sayed is selling Michigan voters.
RNC spokesman Hunter Lovell put it bluntly to Breitbart: "Abdul El-Sayed is asking Michigan families to buy into a fantasy that doesn't exist anywhere in the world. Medicare-for-All isn't free, and pretending otherwise is either breathtakingly naive or a deliberate attempt to mislead Michiganders."
Then there's the credential problem. The New York Post reports that El-Sayed has been calling himself a "physician" on LinkedIn and in debates — despite holding no current medical license in New York or Michigan. When pressed by left-wing host Mehdi Hasan on whether he was being truthful, El-Sayed dodged: "At the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor. It's about whether or not your kid gets a good education."
Hasan wasn't buying it, noting people will question whether "you tell the truth."
The credential inflation matters. El-Sayed leveraged his doctor branding to host the podcast "America Dissected," where, according to the Post, he hawked "questionable health and wellness products" — the same hustle he criticized Dr. Mehmet Oz for, saying Oz tried to "sell people s— they didn't need."
And on transparency, El-Sayed is stonewalling. The Post reports he's delaying the release of his tax returns until after the Aug. 4 Democratic primary, blaming "property abroad" owned by his wife's family. "Just taxes get complicated," he offered. That's the kind of answer that raises more questions than it answers — especially from a man asking voters to hand Washington total control over their healthcare.
El-Sayed's platform also includes "reproductive and gender-affirming care" as healthcare guarantees, according to Breitbart — meaning taxpayers would fund puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones under the banner of "healthcare freedom."
The pattern is clear: a candidate who inflates his credentials, dodges transparency, sells products on a podcast while criticizing others for doing the same, and promises voters something for nothing that no country on earth delivers. Michigan's middle class would pay the tab.
If El-Sayed won't be straight about his own resume and his own taxes, why should anyone trust him with their healthcare?
