Ted Cruz: Alfie Evans' plight 'grim reminder' of reality of socialized medicine

In a tweetstorm that's flying under the radar with the media fixation on France's President Macron lecturing the U.S. on climate change, Trump's attorney Michael Cohen pleading the Fifth in the Stormy Daniels suit, and Kanye West being "red-pilled," Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warns against the dangers of "socialized medicine" in the U.K., which is currently denying toddler Alfie Evans and his parents the right to seek medical treatment in Italy.

Doctors initially thought that Alfie would not survive long, but he fought back time and time again, until a chest infection forced him to rely on a ventilator.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

Alfie’s parents, Kate James and Tom Evans, wish to seek experimental treatments for what is thought to be a mitochondrial condition. Italy has granted Alfie citizenship and offered to transport him to a Vatican hospital.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

But UK and European courts have denied their right to seek alternate treatments for their son and instead have forcibly kept him in a hospital. Now they have turned off the ventilator and are waiting for him to die.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

These events remind us of the tragic case of Charlie Gard last year.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

It is a sad irony that while the people of the UK are busy celebrating a royal birth, its government is brushing off a commoner’s right to life.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

It is a grim reminder that systems of socialized medicine like the National Health Service (NHS) vest the state with power over human lives, transforming citizens into subjects.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

Alfie’s life support was turned off two days ago. NHS doctors expected that he would pass away within minutes. Again, he fought back; at the time of this writing, he is continuing to breathe without assistance. But time is of the essence.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

I urge the UK government to grant the Evans family’s request to treat their precious child in Italy. Americans strive to achieve the promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all our citizens, no matter how young or old.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

I encourage all my fellow Americans to join me today in praying for Alfie and his family.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2018

What is happening in the U.K. is a crime against humanity as well as a crime against one tiny, almost helpless human being. Parents, imagine being told by the state that you cannot seek medical treatment for your infant, that you have no power over the medical decisions for yourself and your family.

This is the reality of "universal health care": an infant child slowly being starved and suffocated to death because state doctors and judges don't think he has a chance to live.

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