If not a U.S. Senate seat, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed certainly deserves an Olympic gold medal for the men’s gymnastics achievement he delivered last Thursday night. In his debate with Republican nominee Mike Rogers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, El-Sayed performed a flip-flop that would have earned unanimous 10.0 scores from the judges and made the Olympic torch itself burn more brightly for a few seconds, in a subtle tribute to such an agile maneuver.
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Moderator Rick Albin of local NBC station WOOD-TV asked the Democrat: If, under the Medicare for All policy that El-Sayed favors, “Could families keep their private health care? Yes or no? You have 60 seconds.”
“Yes. Absolutely, Rick,” El-Sayed purred. “If families want to keep their private health insurance, that’s fine by me.”
But in previous media appearances, El-Sayed has sung precisely the opposite tune. Comparing what El-Sayed said last week with his past comments is like listening to The Beatles’ “Revolution 9” forward and then spinning the vinyl LP and hearing the same song backward.
YouTube’s Liberal Hivemind showcased a half-dozen of El-Sayed’s earlier comments on this topic. They are remarkably consistent in their open hostility to private health coverage:
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, left, performs a perfect flip-flop on private health insurance in U.S. Senate debate against Republican Mike Rogers. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 8, 2026.” (AI image by Deroy Murdock/ChatGPT)
- “I advocate for a government takeover of health insurance because health insurance offers no value.”
- “What Medicare for All does is, it does away with the private insurance market.”
- “Instead of having a whole bunch of payers, you have one payer, and that is the federal government.” (As El-Sayed said this, he held up one digit — his index finger.)
- “Medicare for All guarantees you a public health care plan and eliminates your private one.”
- “Medicare for All comes in and says, ‘No more of this insurance industry.’”
- “One insurance, and that is the government of the United States,” El-Sayed said, with a sweep of his hand, as if whisking private plans away with a broom.
That’s six historical statements loathing private health plans versus one politically convenient and exquisitely timed bromide to the contrary. It’s hard to believe that the hard-Left El-Sayed has had a pro-free-market epiphany on Medicare for All, a cornerstone of his Democrat-Socialist faith. More likely, El-Sayed is trying to vanish into a cloud of his own black ink, like a terrified squid. (RELATED: 10 Times Abdul El-Sayed Was Absolutely Wacked Out)
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“Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed is now trying to deceive voters by pretending that the rallying cry of ‘Medicare for All’ doesn’t really mean Medicare for all,” the Wall Street Journal editorialized on Friday. “More than half the state has employer coverage that Mr. El-Sayed’s socialist allies want to make illegal.”
In fact, as the Journal noted, S. 1506, the Medicare for All bill that Senator Bernie Sanders (Socialist – Vermont) sponsored on April 29, 2025, says: “It shall be unlawful for — (1) a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under the Medicare for All Program.”
The Grand Canyon is tighter than the gap between El-Sayed’s breezy “fine by me” about private medical coverage and Sanders’ “It shall be unlawful.” And, unlike Hasan Piker, El-Sayed cannot pretend not to know Sanders and dismiss him as “some senator from Vermont.” Sanders endorsed El-Sayed and, indeed, campaigned with him as recently as September 26.
And Medicare for All ain’t cheap. Fiscal analyst Charles Blahous estimated its 10-year cost at $32.6 trillion — with a T. And that calculation is from 2018. Adjusting for inflation makes Medicare for All a $43.2 trillion, 10-year proposition.
Republican Mike Rogers should make world-famous El-Sayed’s record of rampant hatred for the private health insurance plans held by . If voters from Motown to Mackinac Island listen carefully to Mike Rogers’ message and then play it backward, they might hear these words of foreshadowing:
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