We've said it before, and we'll say it again: the biggest problem with government-run healthcare isn't the lower standards of care or the long wait times.
The problem with plans like Medicare-for-All is that they empower the federal government to make healthcare decisions for you and your family.
The United Kingdom has given us several tragic examples of this national government tyranny in recent years.
- In 2018, parents of toddler Alfie Evans were denied the right to pursue alternative medical care for their toddler. The three-judge panel of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled, “It is therefore clear law that the parents do not have the right to use the writ of habeas corpus to acquire the custody of their child if this will not be in his best interests. The hospital must be free to do what has been determined to be in Alfie’s best interests. That is the law in this country.”
- This year, a judge ruled that a mentally disabled woman would have to abort her unborn baby, despite the woman’s close family ties and pledges of support. That decision was overturned, but the fact that the original judge felt free to make such a decision demonstrates the tyranny that exists in the UK's medical system.
In his analysis of these cases, Robert Moffet at The Stream explained how this "government knows best" mentality has infected the United States.
The high-profile British cases of care denials, as well as this latest case of coercive abortion, highlight the key issue in modern health policy: Who is going to make the key decisions in health care, including the most difficult decisions over life and death?
Perhaps no one has framed the alternatives better than professor Paul Krugman of the City University of New York, a champion of an American version of a “single-payer” health care system.
Writing in The New York Times, Krugman declared: “For decades, we’ve been lectured on the evils of big government and the glories of the private sector. Yet health reform is a job for the public sector, which already pays most of the bills directly or indirectly, and sooner or later will have to make the key decisions about medical treatment.”
Krugman added, “Moreover, it’s neither fair nor realistic to expect ordinary citizens to have enough medical expertise to make life-or-death decisions about their own treatment.”
If you aren't free to make the most important decisions for you and your family, our country is lost. The United States was founded on the idea that the average American citizen is free and capable to live his or her own life. But as we've seen, that founding principle is being slowly eroded in the seats of power in Washington, D.C.
That's why millions of Americans have joined the Convention of States movement. An Article V Convention of States has the authority to propose constitutional amendments that forever restrict the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.
These amendments can explain, in clear and incontrovertible language, the fact that Washington, D.C., has no place in the hospitals, doctor's offices, and homes of our nation.
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