Top-down government programs are wasteful, inefficient, and strip decision-making power from the people they're supposed to serve. But there's another problem with the kind of universal healthcare programs being proposed by members of the ruling "elite" in D.C: there's no accountability.
A horrifying story from Canada brings this truth to light in shocking detail.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Company, an elderly woman in a nursing home in Alberta, Canada, died last year from dehydration and a urinary tract infection after being left to sit in wet diapers for days on end.
Her son was there, and tried to get her the help she needed, but all he could do in Canada's nationalized healthcare system was complain to the bureaucrats in Alberta's office of Protection for Persons in Care (PPC).
"It's sickening, is what it is," the woman's son, Dana Ewashko, told the CBC. "If somebody doesn't get enough water? Somebody doesn't get changed? They didn't do their job."
But these incompetent taxpayer-subsidized employees didn't just allow this woman to die. They won't be facing any consequences.
"I used to work in the financial world and for a lot less than a life we would have our licenses stripped if we … didn't follow protocol," Ewashko said. "Doesn't seem like the health industry has any consequences to something like this."
The CBC reports that the nursing home has not been fined in this case. What's more, only two provinces -- Alberta and Nova Scotia -- even have the power to fine nursing home operators that don't meet standards of care, but neither province has ever used that power.
Canadians are left with a system totally unaccountable to the taxpayers who help subsidize the operations of the nursing homes that leave their residents to die.
If we aren't careful, big-government politicians will impose the same kind of system here in the United States. While our healthcare isn't perfect, we should never stop fighting for the power to make decisions for ourselves and have legal recourse when healthcare professionals don't do their jobs.
That's why millions have joined the movement to call an Article V Convention of States. Big-government healthcare is growing in popularity, and many Americans have believed the lie that they can have everything they want without paying for it. We must fight these lies in popular culture, but we also need to be building firewalls against these kinds of top-down systems.
That's exactly what a Convention of States can do. A Convention of States is called under Article V of the Constitution and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can say, in no uncertain terms, that the federal government cannot legislate or spending money on anything not expressly mentioned in our founding document.
Such amendments would get the feds out of healthcare, education, and the environment. They would return decision-making authority back to We the People, and limit the power of D.C. bureaucrats once and for all.
Over four million Americans have voiced their support and fifteen states are on board. Sign the Convention of States Petition below to join the movement!
