这位密歇根州参议院候选人的妻子在2025年拒绝接受医疗保险患者，而他本人却一直在倡导全民享有医疗保障
2026年8月5日 美国东部时间下午5:00 / 福克斯新闻频道
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左翼主持人就“医生”头衔质问埃尔赛义德，质疑这位民主党参议院候选人的诚信
泽特奥电台主持人梅迪·哈桑就埃尔赛义德自称“医生”一事质问这位密歇根州民主党参议院候选人，指出他并未获得州医疗执照，并质疑他是否“说了实话”。
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密歇根州联邦参议院提名候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德一直以推动全民医保为竞选纲领，但他妻子的私人精神科诊疗服务似乎完全脱离了医保体系。
埃尔赛义德于周三赢得民主党参议院提名，他曾辩称“医疗保健不应取决于谁给你发薪水”，并要求纳税人出资，通过全民医保体系“确保从摇篮到坟墓的医疗保障”。尽管如此，他的妻子萨拉·朱卡库在其医疗诊所的网站上声明，自己不与任何保险公司签订网络合作协议，通常要求患者直接向诊所付费，不过部分患者或许有资格申请网络外医疗报销。
据《华盛顿自由灯塔报》报道，2026年7月之前，朱卡库诊所网站的常见问题板块曾有“您接受我的保险吗？”的提问，附带的回答是“不接受”。她在《今日心理学》——一个面向治疗师和精神科医生的热门专业数据库——上的个人简介也曾一度注明她不接受保险。
朱卡库独自经营一家私人诊所，是该诊所唯一的医生。
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2026年5月3日，密歇根州联邦参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德在底特律芒福德高中的集会上发表演讲，时任佛蒙特州联邦参议员伯尼·桑德斯（无党派）随后上台。（莎拉·莱斯/盖蒂图片社）
今年7月遭遇媒体审查后，该诊所的网站对公众不再开放，页面显示该网站已设为私密。福克斯新闻数字频道多次通过电话和电子邮件联系朱卡库及其诊所，但均未收到回复。
精神科医生拒绝接受医疗保险患者并非罕见情况。凯泽家庭基金会2022年的一项分析显示，40%的精神科医生不参与医保项目，这一比例在所有医学专科中处于较高水平。
尽管妻子的精神科诊疗服务采用网络外运营模式，埃尔赛义德仍多次强调扩大政府支持的医疗保障覆盖面的重要性。
例如，他在2020年接受美国全国精神疾病联盟采访时表示：“我的妻子是一名精神科医生，我们聊到很多人不愿从事精神科行业，因为它的报酬不如其他科室，只因该行业在医疗体系中被低估了。”他随后辩称，美国需要建立一个认可治疗“精神疾病”重要性的“体系”，因为“严重精神疾病”和“自杀死亡”案例屡见不鲜。
数年之后，在2025年9月的一场竞选活动中，埃尔赛义德哀叹患有“严重精神疾病”的患者常常因“健康保险的变动”而“中断治疗”。
密歇根州民主党参议员在有争议的初选中支持接替他的候选人
密歇根州联邦参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德获得伯尼·桑德斯的背书，并欣然接受将他与佐赫兰·曼达尼相提并论的说法。（比尔·普利亚诺/盖蒂图片社）
这对夫妇2025年的总收入接近68.6万美元，这凸显出埃尔赛义德呼吁扩大政府支持的医保覆盖范围，与妻子采用网络外运营模式的精神科诊所之间的反差。
根据周三公布的2025年纳税申报表两页内容，这对夫妇的总收入为686069美元，调整后总收入为675246美元。埃尔赛义德还拥有多款豪华腕表，每块价值在2000美元至10000美元不等。
密歇根州参议院有望当选者埃尔赛义德回击CNN，指责其“执着”于“defund the police”言论
2026年4月19日，阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义迪在密歇根州民主党全国代表大会的新闻发布会上回答问题，通讯主任罗克西·里奇纳在一旁注视。（何塞·华雷斯/美联社照片）
“他在竞选活动中经常佩戴SAR救援计时器，因为他正努力将我们的政治从企业腐败中拯救出来，”埃尔赛义德的发言人罗克西·里奇纳告诉《华盛顿自由灯塔报》，“有时他会佩戴一块复古医生腕表，因为他就是一名医生。”
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尽管埃尔赛义德拥有医学博士学位，但他从未获得执业医师执照，这引发了争议，有人指控他谎称自己是执业医生。
“他有资格被两次称为‘医生’，”一名竞选发言人当时表示，这是在暗示他同时拥有医学博士学位和公共卫生博士学位。
福克斯新闻数字频道联系埃尔赛义德竞选团队和朱卡库请求置评，但均未得到回复。
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Abdul El-Sayed’s Medicare-for-all crusade collides with an awkward contradiction involving his wife
The Michigan Senate candidate’s wife refused Medicare patients in 2025 while he championed healthcare access for all
August 5, 2026 5:00pm EDT / Fox News
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Left-wing host grills El-Sayed over ‘physician’ claim, questions honesty of Dem Senate candidate
Zeteo host Mehdi Hasan pressed Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about calling himself a ‘physician’ despite lacking a state medical license, asking whether he ‘told the truth.’
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Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on passing Medicare-for-all, but his wife’s private psychiatry practice appears to operate outside the insurance system entirely.
El-Sayed, who secured the Democratic nomination for Senate on Wednesday, has argued that “healthcare shouldn’t depend on who signs your paycheck” and demanded that taxpayers pay to “guarantee healthcare from cradle to grave” through Medicare-for-all. Despite this, his wife, Sarah Jukaku, states on her medical practice’s website that she is out of network with all insurance companies, generally requiring patients to pay the practice directly, though some may be eligible for out-of-network reimbursement.
Prior to July 2026, the FAQ section of Jukaku’s website for her practice included the question “do you accept my insurance?” accompanied by the answer “no,” according to The Washington Free Beacon. Her profile on Psychology Today, a popular professional database for therapists and psychiatrists, also at one point noted that she did not accept insurance.
Jukaku operates her own practice where she is the sole physician.
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Abdul El-Sayed, candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks before U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes the stage at Mumford High School on May 3, 2026, in Detroit.(Sarah Rice/Getty Images)
Amid media scrutiny in July, the practice’s website became inaccessible to the public and displayed a message indicating that it was private. Fox News Digital reached Jukaku and her practice multiple times via phone and email but received no response.
It is not rare for psychiatrists to turn away patients on Medicare. A 2022 analysis by KFF found that 40% of psychiatrists did not participate in Medicare, among the highest rate of any medical specialty.
Even as his wife’s psychiatry practice reportedly operates on an out-of-network model, El-Sayed has repeatedly stressed the importance of expanding access to government-backed healthcare.
In a 2020 interview with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for instance, he stated that “my wife’s a psychiatrist, and we talk about the fact that a lot of folks don’t do psychiatry because it’s not as well recompensed as other practices simply because it’s undervalued in the system.” He went on to argue that the United States needs to build a “system” that “recognizes” the importance of treating “mental illness” due to the prevalence of “serious mental illness” and “death by suicide.”
Years later, at a September 2025 campaign event, El-Sayed lamented that individuals with “serious mental illness” often “fall out of care” due to “transitions in health insurance.”
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Abdul El-Sayed, a U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan, has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders and embraced comparisons between him and Zohran Mamdani.(Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
The couple reported nearly $686,000 in total income in 2025, underscoring the contrast between El-Sayed’s calls for expanded government-backed healthcare and his wife’s out-of-network psychiatry practice.
The couple reported $686,069 in total income and $675,246 in adjusted gross income on two pages of their 2025 tax return released Wednesday. El-Sayed also sports a collection of luxury watches ranging in value from $2,000 to $10,000 apiece.
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Abdul El-Sayed answers a question during a news conference at the Michigan Democratic Party State Endorsement Convention in Detroit April 19, 2026, as communications director Roxie Richner looks on.(Jose Juarez/AP Photo)
“He regularly wears a SAR Rescue Timer on the campaign trail because he is trying to rescue our politics from corporate corruption,” El-Sayed spokeswoman Roxie Richner told The Washington Free Beacon. “Sometimes he wears a vintage doctor’s watch because he is a doctor.”
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Though El-Sayed earned a medical degree, he was never a licensed physician, which caused controversy amid allegations that he had claimed to be a practicing doctor.
“He has earned the right to be called ‘doctor’ twice over,” a campaign spokesperson said at the time, alluding to the fact that he received both a medical degree and a doctorate degree in public health.
The El-Sayed campaign and Jukaku did not respond to requests for comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
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