Alfie Evans is sick. He is going to die. The British NHS has determined this is so. They have pulled him off the ventilator. Stopped feeding him.
In case you do not know the story, plenty of articles are out there. Read several, I don't want to bias your research. You will have a hard time finding any that make Great Britain look good. In a nutshell doctors cannot identify the brain disorder affecting little Alfie and have stopped treatment. The parents object. The British courts have sided with the doctors, just like they did on the Charlie Gard situation last year.
An Italian hospital thinks they can treat 2year-old Alfie. There is a plane waiting to fly him to Rome. Alfie has been granted Italian citizenship to smooth the paperwork. The treatment will cost the NHS nothing.
The hospital and courts will not let the parents take Alfie for treatment. I don't get it.
I can say this, my grandson lived 21 hours. I would have taken just one more minute, hour, day. I know his parents would too, even knowing the outcome. Every one of those 1,260 minutes Sawyer lived was precious. If another hospital could have given him 60 or 90 or 1,000 more minutes I would have sold my soul to get them.
Read about Alfie then tell me the wonders of single payer healthcare. Tell me about the joys of socialized medicine. Explain again how death panels are a figment of the fertile imagination of the former governor of Alaska.
Read about Alfie today. Tomorrow read about Venezuela. Then let me know in the comments why anyone would vote for the Berniecrats in the next election. Alfie is what the Democrats want for your kids and grandkids. Don't fool yourselves. Read their words, listen to their speeches.
The NHS doesn't want it shown that they are incapable of providing treatment others might.
ReplyDeletePlease put away that broad brush you use. I am a Democrat and am appalled. If I could only take the good, what I approve of, from D and R, the world would be a better place. I would never have voted for Bernie Sanders! I have followed little Alfie's story and am appalled. My mother's heart wonders about the British thinking.
ReplyDeleteNHS type healthcare is what the Democrat leadership has called for.
ReplyDeleteAlfie Evans is what you get with socialized medicine
I do not want what other Dems want. Didn't the pm of Britain tell Obama not to get socialized medicine here in US? Don't they also have a two-tier medical system?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are not on board with tne Democrat platform. But if you vote for your local Democrat he will support Pelosi and Schumer and tne party agenda -- universal healthcare, higher taxes, reparations, and now they are pushing universal wages and guaranteed jobs.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't support the leftist/progressive/socialist agenda vote for the other guy.
Since I know personally most of the people running for office, I tend to vote on the guy whose character I know and like. I will not vote for a womanizing or lying Democrat, no matter what the office. However, I live in deep red territory, so Dems are never elected locally.
ReplyDeleteI live in deep red territory, too, but my mayor is a Democrat and Democrats have a majority on the City-County Corruption, er, Council.
ReplyDeleteOne is never truly safe from Democrats. Hell, I’m married to one.