Canada’s Euthanasia Culture Previews What’s To Come On America’s Deadly Medicare Trajectory

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Canada’s Euthanasia Culture Previews What’s To Come On America’s Deadly Medicare Trajectory

Democrats support socialized medicine systems like those in Canada. Do they also support pressuring people into euthanasia to save money?

BY: CHRISTOPHER JACOBS
AUGUST 19, 2022

More than a dozen years ago, as Democrats began the process that led to Obamacare, Barack Obama noted that “the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out there.” He then called for doctors and ethicists to participate in “a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place” about all of this spending on vulnerable patients at the end of their lives.

Canada shows the end results of the type of “conversation” Obama sought. A recent lengthy Associated Press story demonstrates how Canada has normalized euthanasia and a culture of death, in some cases as a way for the health system to save on expensive medical care.

The country’s single-payer health system has destroyed the ethical boundaries that should require doctors to work their utmost to save patients’ lives, and instead now sees physicians broaching “death with dignity” as a way for the health care system to save a buck.

Obama’s ‘Difficult Conversations’ Come to Life
The AP obtained a recording from one patient with a degenerative brain condition, who recorded hospital personnel talking to him about his care. The recording shows the hospital’s director of ethics telling the patient his care could cost “north of $1,500 per day.” When the patient asked about the plan for his long-term care, the physician-ethicist replied, “My piece of this was to talk to you, [to see] if you had an interest in assisted dying.”

For a supposed “ethicist” to mention the fees needed to care for a vulnerable patient—and then, when the patient said he felt pressured by the discussion, to go further by broaching the topic of euthanasia—violates every principle of ethics, in the medical profession and otherwise.

The AP investigation makes clear this story does not present an aberration. For instance, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation previously reported on an incident in which a doctor mentioned euthanasia to the parent of a 25-year-old woman with spina bifida—within earshot of the young woman. When the mother complained about the doctor’s “suggestion,” the physician called the mother selfish.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/19/canadas-euthanasia-culture-previews-whats-to-come-on-americas-deadly-medicare-trajectory/

[Kamaji]

The key takeaway:  A recent lengthy Associated Press story demonstrates how Canada has normalized euthanasia and a culture of death, in some cases as a way for the health system to save on expensive medical care.


Remember how the left poo-pooed all the "conspiracy" talk of death panels under Obamacare?  Yeah, well, those weren't empty conspiracy theories, just clear-eyed people thinking through to the necessary logical conclusions of Obamacare.

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"Soylent Green" did it better with their "Going Home" centers...

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The key takeaway:  A recent lengthy Associated Press story demonstrates how Canada has normalized euthanasia and a culture of death, in some cases as a way for the health system to save on expensive medical care.


Remember how the left poo-pooed all the "conspiracy" talk of death panels under Obamacare?  Yeah, well, those weren't empty conspiracy theories, just clear-eyed people thinking through to the necessary logical conclusions of Obamacare.

The unfortunate truth of this day and age is that those who are routinely labeled "conspiracy theorists" are all so often just those who can see the impending consequences of seemingly benign changes long before they become evident to the masses.
It has become popular to malign and marginalize individuals for their foresight, rather than heed those warnings and seek to prevent those consequences.

When the predicted consequences are made manifest, those who were decried for pointing them out first, either by virtue of their ability to indicate how small changes could lead to big differences later or by possession of tidbits of specialized information which were not common knowledge, retain the stigma of being branded, maligned, and marginalized, even though events proved them correct.

In this way, those who control public information, and thus public opinion through censorship, marginalization, and simply shouting down those who do not march in lockstep with their narrative, increasingly steer "conventional wisdom" away from truth, and any semblance of wisdom.

The fonts of knowledge have been poisoned by the ichor of political and pecuniary ambition, and the former bastions of learning and discussion reduced to little more than clearinghouses for the babblings of the malicious and misinformed.

Even the halls of 'hard science' have been broached, data fudged, concealed and destroyed in direct contravention of the very principles of scientific investigation, not following the evidence to a conclusion, but seeking that which would support a predetermined outcome at the expense of truth, if need be.

We have come our full enlightened circle to return to "If it floats, it's a witch! and must be burned at the stake! and if it doesn't, it's dead, anyway."

For all its hope of enlightenment, the Age yields again to Darkness...
and the books will be burned for light.