Former President Barack Obama doesn’t draw crowds the way he used to do. But this week Democrats are fortunate to have another political rock star hitting the trail for candidates in swing-state races. And just like the former President, he’s giving voters inaccurate information about his plans for their health care.

Sydney Ember of the New York Times reports from Ames, Iowa:

It was hard to miss him at the homecoming parade.

The band was booming. The floats were floating. And there he was — in the middle of it all — hands waving, hair flying.

“Hi, Bernie!” someone shouted from the sidewalk.

“How you doing?” he shouted back.

Bernie Sanders may have been mistreated by the Democratic National Committee when he sought the 2016 presidential nomination against establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, but this week the party is fully embracing him.

In anticipation of Mr. Sanders’ arrival this week in another Midwestern battleground state, Mark Sommerhauser of the Wisconsin State Journal noted on Thursday that “the policy views Sanders champions have become touchstones for many Democrats here and nationally.” Mr. Sommerhauser adds:

Examples include Sanders’ “Medicare For All” health care plan and his call to raise the minimum wage to $15.

Peter Rickman - a Milwaukee labor activist who led Sanders’ Wisconsin delegation to the 2016 Democratic National Convention - said Sanders “created the political space” to tout those issues, as well as free college tuition, within the Democratic mainstream.

“Now Medicare For All, it’s not taboo any more,” said state Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee, an early Sanders supporter in 2016.

It’s not taboo because it’s not what it seems. Democrats learned that voters don’t want a monopoly government provider of health services. In June Politico noted that Democratic candidates were being advised that the phrase “single payer” includes the two words “you can’t say in a Democratic ad.”