AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Abdul El-Sayed calls doctors who reject Medicaid racist — his own wife won't accept it
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent months accusing doctors who decline Medicaid patients of racial discrimination. His wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, runs a private practice in Ann Arbor that accepts neither Medicaid nor Medicare, nor any insurance at all. The gap between El-Sayed's public rhetoric and his household's private medical practice sits at […] The post Abdul El-Sayed calls doctors who reject Medicaid racist — his own wife won't accept it appeared first on American Almanac .
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent months accusing doctors who decline Medicaid patients of racial discrimination. His wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, runs a private practice in Ann Arbor that accepts neither Medicaid nor Medicare, nor any insurance at all. The gap between El-Sayed's public rhetoric and his household's private medical practice sits at the center of a Washington Free Beacon investigation published July 16, 2026. The findings raise pointed questions about whether the candidate, who backs a single-payer "Medicare for All" system and casts himself as a champion of the working class, is willing to hold his own family to the standard he demands of every other physician in the state. Neither…Open