Howard Schultz Is Right About Medicare for All

If it works in Scandinavia, it won’t work in the U.S. because Americans won’t pay the required taxes.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Feb. 1, 2019 5:36 p.m. ET

For progressives, the only thing worse than Starbucks founder Howard Schultz getting into the 2020 presidential race might be Donald Trump suffering a debilitating heart attack. That’s how many on the left secretly see things. To them, Mr. Trump is like another Kennedy assassination combined with another Goldwater—a one-time alignment that will enable an agenda that otherwise would never get through the White House door. Item No. 1 on that agenda is single-payer health care.

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