You missed the context, which was UK's recent decision to emulate Canada by tabling their own assisted-suicide bill (Oct. 16, 2024). Click on the link provided at the beginning of the FP news brief.
That report includes the MP's denialist statement that “There is absolutely no question of disabled people or those with mental illness who a…
You missed the context, which was UK's recent decision to emulate Canada by tabling their own assisted-suicide bill (Oct. 16, 2024). Click on the link provided at the beginning of the FP news brief.
That report includes the MP's denialist statement that “There is absolutely no question of disabled people or those with mental illness who are not terminally ill being pressured to end their lives.”
This is Gaslighting of the First Order. And Rupa's investigative reporting from 2 years ago is proof.
Rupa documented Canada's trajectory down that slippery slope, which began with that same reassurance -- and after only 5 years (2017 - 2022) it came to include people who were simply depressed, or in a financial crisis and convinced they "can't afford to live". There were even cases of disabled people asking for rehab support, but they are offered assisted suicide as the first option. (The other options are more expensive, therefore less accessible.)
It's always been about the money since Day One.:
"The predicted gross reduction in health care costs amounts to $109.2 million while the cost of administering MAID is estimated at $22.3 million. Thus, the difference between the two represents a net cost reduction for provincial governments of $86.9 million." -- COST ESTIMATE FOR BILL C-7 “MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING” (Parliamentary Budget Officer, Oct. 2020)
And as of 2024, MAID is now offered to "mature minors", aka Canadian teenagers who struggle with the roller-coaster feelings of adolescence. They can make that impulsive, irreversible decision without parental knowledge or consent.
If this information is your idea of manipulating readers with "sloppy, deceitful, tearjerker stories", then fine -- count me as guilty.
I didn’t miss the context at all. I knew why they relinked to the articles. My comments refer only to her article about the Canadian situation. The MAID information presented in federal parliament was the financial implications not the driving force behind the legislation. Your belief in that concept amounts to a conspiracy belief. The financial implications are as a result of what I indicated in my comment – long-term terminal care for those who are desperately ill and it’s related expenses will naturally drop when their lives are ended much earlier. That is the intent of the legislation and that is what the most people are taking advantage of. By, most I mean a very very large percentage, which again I pointed out her data didn’t support it but the real data does. I guess that you would deny a humane end to people who my wife sees every day struggling in hospices and who choose MAID for a couple, cherry picked tearjerker stories. That is irrational and lacks sympathetic and insightful perspective.
"I guess that you would deny a humane end to people who my wife sees every day struggling in hospices and who choose MAID..."
You guess wrong.
But if you think financial priorities are not helping to drive MAID, consider that for years Canada has ranked near the bottom of universal health-care countries in health-care quality and accessibility, even though it's near the top in per-capita spending. For years they have been scrambling for a way to close that gap. The shortfall is not from long-term terminal care, it's systemic (not enough hospital capacity, long waiting times for specialists, that sort of thing).
Also more than 40% of disabled Canadians live below the poverty line, with no way out. The numbers of disabled people seeking MAiD (who would have continued living if not for the dilemma of poverty) are not being reported, but the anecdotal evidence means they exist.
"When people are living in such a situation where they’re structurally placed in poverty, is medical assistance in dying really a choice, or is it coercion? That’s the question we need to ask ourselves.” (Dr. Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician in Toronto)
What WAS reported in 2022: around 5% were helped to die who didn't have any terminal disease or need for hospice care. Sounds small, but that was over 460 people, for a reason where even a few would be too many.
What's more, a full one third (some 5000 people) asked to die because they felt themselves to be a burden on others. That is not a medical issue, it's a nasty social construct which is typical for secular materialist cultures.
To dismiss hundreds of needless premature deaths as "cherry-picked tearjerker stories" is a very callous position, IMO unworthy of someone as perceptive as you seem to be.
You missed the context, which was UK's recent decision to emulate Canada by tabling their own assisted-suicide bill (Oct. 16, 2024). Click on the link provided at the beginning of the FP news brief.
That report includes the MP's denialist statement that “There is absolutely no question of disabled people or those with mental illness who are not terminally ill being pressured to end their lives.”
This is Gaslighting of the First Order. And Rupa's investigative reporting from 2 years ago is proof.
Rupa documented Canada's trajectory down that slippery slope, which began with that same reassurance -- and after only 5 years (2017 - 2022) it came to include people who were simply depressed, or in a financial crisis and convinced they "can't afford to live". There were even cases of disabled people asking for rehab support, but they are offered assisted suicide as the first option. (The other options are more expensive, therefore less accessible.)
It's always been about the money since Day One.:
"The predicted gross reduction in health care costs amounts to $109.2 million while the cost of administering MAID is estimated at $22.3 million. Thus, the difference between the two represents a net cost reduction for provincial governments of $86.9 million." -- COST ESTIMATE FOR BILL C-7 “MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING” (Parliamentary Budget Officer, Oct. 2020)
And as of 2024, MAID is now offered to "mature minors", aka Canadian teenagers who struggle with the roller-coaster feelings of adolescence. They can make that impulsive, irreversible decision without parental knowledge or consent.
If this information is your idea of manipulating readers with "sloppy, deceitful, tearjerker stories", then fine -- count me as guilty.
I didn’t miss the context at all. I knew why they relinked to the articles. My comments refer only to her article about the Canadian situation. The MAID information presented in federal parliament was the financial implications not the driving force behind the legislation. Your belief in that concept amounts to a conspiracy belief. The financial implications are as a result of what I indicated in my comment – long-term terminal care for those who are desperately ill and it’s related expenses will naturally drop when their lives are ended much earlier. That is the intent of the legislation and that is what the most people are taking advantage of. By, most I mean a very very large percentage, which again I pointed out her data didn’t support it but the real data does. I guess that you would deny a humane end to people who my wife sees every day struggling in hospices and who choose MAID for a couple, cherry picked tearjerker stories. That is irrational and lacks sympathetic and insightful perspective.
"I guess that you would deny a humane end to people who my wife sees every day struggling in hospices and who choose MAID..."
You guess wrong.
But if you think financial priorities are not helping to drive MAID, consider that for years Canada has ranked near the bottom of universal health-care countries in health-care quality and accessibility, even though it's near the top in per-capita spending. For years they have been scrambling for a way to close that gap. The shortfall is not from long-term terminal care, it's systemic (not enough hospital capacity, long waiting times for specialists, that sort of thing).
Also more than 40% of disabled Canadians live below the poverty line, with no way out. The numbers of disabled people seeking MAiD (who would have continued living if not for the dilemma of poverty) are not being reported, but the anecdotal evidence means they exist.
"When people are living in such a situation where they’re structurally placed in poverty, is medical assistance in dying really a choice, or is it coercion? That’s the question we need to ask ourselves.” (Dr. Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician in Toronto)
What WAS reported in 2022: around 5% were helped to die who didn't have any terminal disease or need for hospice care. Sounds small, but that was over 460 people, for a reason where even a few would be too many.
What's more, a full one third (some 5000 people) asked to die because they felt themselves to be a burden on others. That is not a medical issue, it's a nasty social construct which is typical for secular materialist cultures.
To dismiss hundreds of needless premature deaths as "cherry-picked tearjerker stories" is a very callous position, IMO unworthy of someone as perceptive as you seem to be.