Why the DSA’s Medicare-for-All Dream Threatens Us With a Real-Life Nightmare

Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan is building his US Senate campaign on Medicare for All, promising health care coverage for all Americans “cradle-to-grave.”

In Minnesota, Democratic Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan has likewise made Medicare for All a central plank of her progressive platform.

In New York, more than 100 state lawmakers have co-sponsored legislation to establish a statewide single-payer system.

Single-payer health care is back on the political agenda, pushed by Democratic Socialists and their leftist allies as the answer to Americans’ frustrations with private medical insurers.

But while excoriating insurance companies may be good politics, forcing everyone into a government insurance monopoly would be disastrous policy.