Abdul El-Sayed Wants Medicare for All ‘From Cradle to Grave.’ His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn’t Accept Medicare—or Any Insurance at All.
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Abdul El-Sayed wants to put every American on a government health plan "from cradle to grave. " Meanwhile his own wife, a psychiatrist, won't take Medicare. Won't take Blue Cross.
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Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed supports universal health care through a single-payer "Medicare for All" system that would cover every American "from cradle to grave." His wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, does not take Medicare or any other insurance plan, forcing her patients to pay out of pocket for the services they receive.
She also appears to have scrubbed a portion of the "Frequently Asked Questions" page on her website making clear that she does not accept insurance. The post Abdul El-Sayed Wants Medicare for All ‘From Cradle to Grave.’ His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn’t Accept Medicare—or Any Insurance at All. appeared first on .
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Abdul El-Sayed wants to put every American on a government health plan "from cradle to grave." Meanwhile his own wife, a psychiatrist, won't take Medicare. Won't take Blue Cross. Won't take anything but a check or a card swipe from the patient sitting in front of her. That's not a gotcha we're inventing, it's just what her own practice's FAQ page said, right up until someone noticed and it quietly disappeared.
There's a version of this where you shrug. Plenty of doctors go cash-only because insurance reimbursement is a paperwork nightmare and pays badly, especially in psychiatry. Fine. But that's exactly the point. The reason she can walk away from insurance is that private practice still lets her set her own terms. Take away that off-ramp, put everyone into one government-run system with government-set rates, and there's no boutique cash practice to retreat to. The candidate's household has apparently already priced in the fact that his own program would be a downgrade for people who can afford to opt out of it.
None of this means single-payer is right or wrong on the merits. But it's fair to ask a guy selling "Medicare for All" why the doctor down the hall from him, who happens to share his last name on the mortgage, has built her livelihood around not touching it. If it's good enough for 340 million strangers, it should be good enough for one household in Michigan. Scrubbing the webpage instead of answering the question tells you which answer they were worried about.
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