He Wrote the Book on “Medicare for All”. His Wife Won’t Take It.

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there’s a psychiatry practice called Mind Work that doesn’t take Medicare. It doesn’t take Medicaid or Blue Cross or any other insurance either. Patients pay cash.

The practice belongs to Dr. Sarah Jukaku, who used to be co-chief of psychiatry at University of Michigan Health— a hospital system that accepts Medicare— before she left to open a practice that doesn’t.

According to records cited by the Washington Free Beacon, Jukaku formally opted out of Medicare in March 2025, not long after her cash-only practice opened its doors.

Under normal circumstances, that would be nobody’s business but the doctor’s. But her husband, Abdul El-Sayed, is running for US Senate in Michigan on a promise of Medicare for “every single American from cradle to grave.”

In fact, he co-wrote the book Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide, with a foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders— who has also endorsed him and campaigned with him.

His platform promises Medicare that is “automatic, for everyone, and accepted everywhere,” without premiums, copays, or deductibles.

Meanwhile his own household runs the counterexample.

To be fair, there’s nothing wrong with cash-only clinics. I think many Americans would welcome more cash-only medical options, without the bureaucracy of government and insurance companies.

Opting out of the insurance bureaucracy is a perfectly rational response to a system that buries doctors in paperwork and pays them late, and plenty of good physicians have made the same call.

But her husband’s platform doesn’t say Medicare should be one option among many. And it certainly doesn’t celebrate the doctors who refuse it. It says “accepted everywhere,” in writing, and it adds that Medicare for All should make private insurance “redundant and unnecessary.”

The irony doesn’t stop with Medicare.

The Free Beacon also took a look at the candidate’s wrists and found a rotation of luxury watches, including a roughly $10,000 Omega Speedmaster and what appears to be a Rolex Submariner worth up to $15,000.

Those are bold accessories for a man who campaigns against the wealthy and eviscerates the super-rich. Just like Bernie Sanders and AOC, the Left always seems to define “the rich” as “anyone with more money than I have.”

If this feels familiar, it’s because it keeps happening.

An oyster farmer from Maine named Graham Platner came out of nowhere raging against the billionaire class, collected his own Bernie Sanders endorsement, and turned out to have carried a Totenkopf tattoo— the skull emblem of the Nazi SS— for 18 years.

Ex-girlfriends described him as physically abusive, and Maine Democrats nominated him for US Senate anyway. The party that calls everyone who disagrees with it a “Nazi”, and told the country to “believe all women”, chose the guy with an actual Nazi tattoo and allegations that haven’t stopped: a new sexual assault claim surfaced last week, and he quit the race.

The pattern holds after they win, too. New York elected Letitia James attorney general largely on her promise to go after Donald Trump for whatever she could find.

What she found was that he had put optimistic valuations on his properties in loan paperwork, something so routine that Deutsche Bank’s own banker testified they didn’t care and would gladly do business with him again. The loans were repaid in full.

Then last October, James was indicted for mortgage fraud herself, over false statements on the paperwork for a Virginia house occupied by a relative who was wanted by police.

The list goes on.

Lisa Cook was accused of lying on her own mortgage documents while sitting as a Federal Reserve governor helping to supervise the banking system.

James Comey, who once ran the nation’s top law enforcement agency, lied to Congress about authorizing a leak.

Judge Hannah Dugan in Milwaukee helped an illegal immigrant, in her courtroom for beating his roommate, slip out a back door past federal agents.

Stacy Davis Gates fought school choice as head of the Chicago Teachers Union while sending her own kid to private school.

And Kamala Harris spent years warning that sea levels are rising, then bought an $8.2 million beach house in Malibu.

These people don’t believe a word of what they’re saying, and they certainly don’t practice it.

I remember being a young Army officer in my early 20s going to buy a Ford Explorer at the dealership; the sales guy was pushing me hard… really hard… on all the wonderful features of this car and why I just HAD to buy it.

At one point I asked him, “What do you drive?”. A Chevy. Lol.

It’s the same thing here; these politicians are just here to sell a product. And the product is socialism— because that’s (what they think) the people want to buy.

Obviously the only people who can actually sell socialism are those who don’t live under it, have never lived under it, and will never live under it.

I respect Sarah Jukaku, the politician’s wife: she looked at government-run healthcare and opted out. It’s the most sensible policy position anyone in the campaign has taken.

Her “opt-out” strategy is also worth copying… and that’s the entire idea of a Plan B: having a second bank account, a second residency, real assets, etc. arranged calmly and legally— before you need them— gives you the ability to opt-out of their idiotic ideas.

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