We hear it every two years – some Democrat promising to solve all your problems by pushing “Medicare for All!” It’s the cure for what ails you, they insist: your health insurance. But there is a lot about the healthcare industry, including insurance, that they don’t tell you. I will.

This year’s model of promising Utopia is Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. He has joined the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chorus insisting “free” healthcare is just a vote away. We’ve heard this song before, and we’ve seen it around the world, too. It never ends up well for the people who fall for it.

Abdul was unambiguous about his intentions, pledging to get rid of private health insurance completely for his government takeover. But what works well in Democrat primaries doesn’t necessarily sell all that well to normal people, and most people like their health coverage. They may not like the price, which is the fault of Obamacare and the regulations put in place when Democrats “fixed” healthcare just 16 years ago, but the care they receive largely pleases them. Most people aren’t Luigi Mangione, ready to murder because they don’t like the insurance they have. (Ironically, Luigi comes from one of the wealthiest families in Maryland and, undoubtedly, had........

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