MI Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Wants Medicare for All But His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn’t Accept it
“Jukaku opted out of Medicare, records show, meaning she cannot bill the program and requires Medicare patients to pay out of pocket”
This is so typical of the left. One thing for them, something different for everyone else.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Abdul El-Sayed Wants Medicare for All ‘From Cradle to Grave.’ His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn’t Accept Medicare—or Any Insurance at All.
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed supports universal health care through a single-payer “Medicare for All” system that would cover every American “from cradle to grave.” His wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, does not take Medicare or any other insurance plan, forcing her patients to pay out of pocket for the services they receive. She also appears to have scrubbed a portion of the “Frequently Asked Questions” page on her website making clear that she does not accept insurance.
Jukaku, who has a medical degree from Columbia University and a masters from the University of Oxford, worked as co-chief of psychiatry at University of Michigan Health—which does accept Medicare—before starting her own Ann Arbor, Mich.-based practice, Mind Work Psychiatry, in 2024. The following March, Jukaku opted out of Medicare, records show, meaning she cannot bill the program and requires Medicare patients to pay out of pocket. The same goes for patients with private insurance plans, though they can often submit bills to their providers and recoup some of the costs.
Jukaku’s private practice and her financial arrangement with her patients stand in stark contrast to the vision El-Sayed has articulated on the campaign trail about the way the health care system should work.
He has argued that “your healthcare shouldn’t depend on who signs your paycheck” and that “we can and must guarantee healthcare from cradle to grave.” Under Jukaku’s insurance policies, a prospective patient’s ability to receive psychiatric treatment does depend on who signs his or her paycheck—both because low-income patients are almost certainly unable to pay for her services out of pocket and because those with pricier employer-provided plans are more likely to be reimbursed for a portion of out-of-network psychiatric care. El-Sayed has also expressed concern that people with “serious mental illness” regularly “fall out of care” because of “transitions in health insurance.”
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It is not uncommon for psychiatrists to refuse to accept insurance of any kind especially Medicare. Two reasons primarily:
1) Insurance is forever annoying doctors for reports and more reports, Drs
can spend more time practicing insurance than practicing medicine.
2) Reimbursement rates for insurance are less and sometimes much less
than their billing rates. Medicare reimbursement rates are the worst.
Needleless to say it is beyond hypocritical for this turd to support something like Medicare for all while his wife turns her back on it. Practice what you preach at least,