Riot police block an opposition demonstration in Venezuela

Would Medicare for All Really Turn us into a Venezuela?

In an editorial for the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, James Freeman plays the red scare card against Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All (M4A) plan, which he compares to the policies of “Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, whose mania for wealth redistribution has brought a country to its knees.”

Freeman gets the causation backwards. Venezuela is not in crisis because Maduro…