We presume that Connie Yates and Chris Gard were able to determine the disposition of the final remains of their tiny son without the help of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.
For the last nine months of Charlie’s 11-month-old life, they had little say about what happened to him.
The controversial case is what Americans have long feared about a potential single-payer health care system – that family would not get a say in determining what is best for their loved one.
Democrats would foist such a system upon us right now if given the opportunity. With Hillary Clinton as president and a Democratic Congress, legislation already would be in the works. And, unlike with Republicans, members would stick together, for better or for worse.
It’s why, after all, they’ve fought so hard to keep the fatally flawed Affordable Care Act (ACA). The original idea, many Democrats have whispered, was to graduate from the ACA to a totally government-run system after insurance companies could not longer afford to pay the freight.