It’s as close as America has ever come to a place where health care is a right, not a privilege. FREE TRIAL: Bulwark+ for 14 daysIT WOULD BE DIFFICULT to overstate how central health care is to El-Sayed’s identity. He says it convinced him to focus on public health rather than the practice of medicine—which, in turn, drew him to Medicare for All. To me, as long as it reduces the power of the health care corporations, expands health care, and does so publicly, I’m for it, and would be glad to work with likeminded partners on that path.” To me, as long as it reduces the power of the health care corporations, expands health care, and does so publicly, I’m for it, and would be glad to work with likeminded partners on that path.