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Abdul El-Sayed and Medicare for All, revisited

What’s actually at stake in the debate over AES’s M4A plan?

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Carl Beijer
Oct 14, 2026
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I noticed earlier today that Jacobin seems to be playing a duelling headline game with my take on AES’s Medicare for All plan and a more recent take published by Matt Bruenig. Ordinarily there isn’t much daylight between me and Bruenig on these questions, but though the headlines probably suggest a bigger disagreement than actually exists, I thought it’d nevertheless be worth spelling out where the disagreement actually is.

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