Abdul El-Sayed says health care is a right, but he ignores the price tag. He claims we need to fund things that people need in their lives. The problem is that the government is terrible at guessing costs.
When Medicare started, officials said it would cost $12 billion by 1990. It hit that mark in just five years. By 1990, the real cost was $100 billion. That is a huge gap. Until you witness the price when it becomes free, do not assume current health care costs are high. That was PJ O’Rourke warning us years ago. The math never works out as promised.
El-Sayed wants to expand these programs in Michigan. He thinks voters will forget the past failures. Townhall reported that every step Democrats take is designed to add more socialized medicine. They say they want to fix the system. But the changes are meant to break it. Obamacare failed right from the start. Premium savings of $2,500 never happened. People could not keep their doctors. The costs went up, not down. El-Sayed wishes that children in Michigan experienced brain damage. He needs them to believe a broken system will work now.
On Fox News, Martha MacCallum asked him about the rising cost of services. El-Sayed said we pay too much because we fight wars we should not fight. He also said the rich do not pay enough taxes. He claims the engine generating their money-making chance is receiving insufficient funding.
That is his code for public schools and roads. He wants the federal government to fund schools. But the federal government does not fund public schools. It never has. He did not explain how a senator will pay for this new spending. RedState noted he barely won his primary against Rep. Haley Stevens. He is not a big leader in the movement yet.
He told the Fox audience that people need in their lives are basic foundations. He listed clean air, clean water, and childcare. MacCallum pointed out that New York and New Jersey already pay enormous taxes for these things. El-Sayed blamed wars and tax loopholes. He said he would rather buy good schools than buy a whole bunch of wars. That sounds nice. But who pays the bill? He did not give a number. He just said the rich should pay more. The reporting does not show how much more.
El-Sayed claims to be a capitalist. He says supply and demand should decide where capital goes. Yet he wants the government to provide schools, healthcare, and childcare. That is not capitalism. It is socialism. He acts like he is a leader for 2028.
He needs voters to forget that Democrats designed Obamacare to fail. They failed too soon. Voters noticed the lies. Now he wants them to trust him again. My focus, he says, is ensuring we finance necessities for people’s daily lives. That is a nice goal. But the cost is always higher than the promise.
He quoted a line about going low. When they go low, we don’t go high. He used that to sound tough. But the real question is about the money. The government has never been good at estimating costs. It always goes up. El-Sayed wants to expand the system. He wants to fund things the federal government does not fund.
