Fresh off winning Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Dr. El-Sayed rightly pointed out to Kristen Welker that big insurers, big hospital-centric health-care organizations, and big pharmaceutical companies have racked up big profits for them and big bills for the American patient. But thinking Big Government is going to make American health-care costs any smaller is a misdiagnosis of what ails the largest expenditure of our GDP. His panacea for a health-care system in the palliative stages of its institutional life is simply to offer a Medicare for All program so complete in its coverage that the government could “guarantee cradle to grave health care from the moment that somebody is born to the moment that they expire . . . at 120 years of life after a long, healthy life in their sleep peacefully.” It sounds like Sayed-side Economics isn’t “Medicare for All.” He’s writing a prescription for: “Miracle for All.” It’s a tough pill to swallow.

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