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Canadian healthcare pushes eliglible patients to agree for eutanasia. Thoughts?

Source: https://reason.com/2022/09/07/some-canadian-health-care-patients-say-theyre-being-encouraged-to-just-die-already/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=page+post

Some patients of Canadian health care say they are encouraged "to just already die"

According to Associated Press, Canadian health care stuff discuss performing eutonasia to disabled patients, even though they didn't ask for it. These talks are not motivated by the quality of life, but the costs of healthcare.

In Canada, people working in Healthcare are trained to inform patients, that they can choose eutanasia, if they have eliglible conditions for this. This leads to situation, when some patients, also disabled, but not only terminally ill, had some not very pleasant talks with healthcare stuff. One of these patients, Roger Foley, provided a recording to Associated Press.

Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain disorder and is hospitalized in London, Ontario, was so alarmed by staffers mentioning euthanasia that he began secretly recording some of their conversations.

In one recording obtained by the AP, the hospital's director of ethics told Foley that for him to remain in the hospital, it would cost "north of $1,500 a day." Foley replied that mentioning fees felt like coercion and asked what plan there was for his long-term care.

"Roger, this is not my show," the ethicist responded. "My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying."

Foley said he had never previously mentioned euthanasia. The hospital says there is no prohibition on staff raising the issue.

Report by the Canadian Medical Association Journal was intended to analyze the costs of implementing MAID regulations before the program was rolled out across the country. The report calculated that implementing assisted suicide programs would cost $1.5 million to $14.8 million but could reduce annual healthcare spending by between $34 million to $136.8 million.

Canadian healthcare pushes eliglible patients to agree for eutanasia. Thoughts?
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