Medicare for All is back on the ballot

Published August 22, 2026 5:00am ET



House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) may have refused to commit to bringing Medicare for All to a vote and distanced himself from his own past support of socializing the entire healthcare sector of the economy, but candidates winning Democratic Party primaries across the country are not as shy.

Over the past two weeks alone, Abdul el Sayed in Michigan, Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, Troy Jackson in Maine, and Angie Nixon in Florida have all emerged as Democratic Senate nominees who have made Medicare for All a central part of their campaigns.

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