In a recent podcast interview, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed sought to reassure voters about his healthcare stance. He’s a supporter of government-run single-payer healthcare, which would cost more than $3 trillion every single year, according to nonpartisan and even left-leaning estimates. That’s on top of existing federal spending, which is already running trillions in the red annually. 

The national debt is climbing toward $41 trillion. There is no pathway toward funding such a giant new program beyond enormous and across-the-board tax increases on every income group in the country. It’s so wildly unaffordable that even several of the deepest blue states in the country, such as Vermont and California, have abandoned the goal, despite their leftist elected officials possessing a strong political will to get it done. The math simply does not work. Americans are not willing to bear the brunt of massive tax hikes to fund a government takeover of their healthcare system.