X.comWelker pressed Michigan socialist candidate Abdul El-Sayed on his pie-in-the-sky proposal for universal healthcare during the August 9 edition of NBC’s Meet the Press. El-Sayed,” Welker cross-examined. Then came the kicker: Instead of paying the health insurance company from your bi-weekly or monthly pay stubs, why not just pay more in taxes to the federal government?! Abdul El-Sayed admits that Medicare-for-all involves raising the taxes on all Americans regardless of their income level and ending private health insurance:"Instead of paying your health insurance company, you pay a little more in taxes... The reality, as The Post conceded then, was that “Medicare-for-all would require raising taxes on most taxpayers, including the middle class.”