{"id":587489,"date":"2026-08-17T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587489\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:40:08","slug":"opinion-farewell-private-insurance-under-sanders-medicare-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587489\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Farewell, private insurance, under Sanders Medicare-for-all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6RI3XFNQ4FED3DZIPZD2ZSLDSA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When Abdul El-Sayed became Michigan\u2019s Democratic Senate nominee last week, his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/rogersforsenate.com\/news\/rogers-statement-on-michigan-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacked his \u201cideological fanaticism<\/a>\u201d on crime, terrorism and taxes. Unmentioned: El-Sayed\u2019s support for Medicare-for-all, a system in which the federal government would become nearly the only provider of health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Abdul El-Sayed became Michigan\u2019s Democratic Senate nominee last week, his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, immediately attacked his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-587489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}