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Socialists are selling you ‘Medicare for All.’ It’s just Medicaid with better PR

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17.08.2026

In the same vein that Ovaltine should be called “Roundtine,” the Democratic Socialists of America‘s Medicare for All plan should properly be called Medicaid for All.

The DSA’s Workers Deserve Program claims it will fix the “broken healthcare system” by guaranteeing “universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care.”

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On the campaign trail, DSA candidates describe their government-controlled, single-payer system of “free” health care as Medicare for All.

In Michigan, Abdul el Sayed, who “literally wrote the book on Medicare for All,” is “running to guarantee healthcare for every single American.”

“Expanding Medicare and providing it to every single American would make it stronger,” he says.

Likewise, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who introduced the Medicare for All Act in the U.S. Senate in 2025, said in a press release this week that Medicare for All would “reduce overall healthcare spending in America by more than $1 trillion a year.”

The DSA, Sanders, and all the special interest groups behind the Medicare for All........

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