The Alfie Evans tragedy should be a wake-up call to any Americans who might be tempted to become complacent about the increasing role of the federal government in healthcare.
A single-payer, nationalized health care system isn’t a bad idea simply due to economic concerns. The scariest part of government healthcare is the potential for situations just like Alfie’s.
Alfie was suffering from an undiagnosed degenerative brain condition, and his parents wanted to fly their son to Italy for experimental treatments.
But the British government wouldn’t allow it.
Because the Brits have permitted their national bureaucracy to control the healthcare decisions of its citizens, they also had the power (supposedly) to decide what was in the “best interest” of little Alfie. The boy died several days after the government ordered his life support to be removed, and now his parents are left to deal with the aftermath.
The statists in D.C. would like nothing more than to have that same kind of power over American citizens. They believe that Americans aren't capable of making their own decisions, and they, like the British bureaucrats, believe they know "what's best" for the 320 million people living and working in communities across the country.
But We the People aren’t giving up without a fight. Millions of people have joined the Article V Convention of States movement to ensure that situations like Alfie’s never happen here.
A Convention of States is controlled by the people and the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can restore the original, limited-government vision of the Constitution and ensure that the feds have no role in the healthcare decisions of the American people.
