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The major cost drivers of Canada's single payer health care system are big-ticket tests and interventions: MRIs, surgery, etc. Palliative care is comparatively cheap, especially since it's often done at home with a visiting nurse coming by to inject morphine. There's no significant savings to be found by killing the terminally ill more quickly.

MAID is always a choice by a patient, not an option chosen by the health care system. And according to reports, in 96% of cases it's a really obvious choice: I'm going to die within a year anyway, in great, degenerative agony. I'd rather go of my own choosing while I still can choose, in a relatively painless way.



There are cases where it's been actively suggested to a non-terminally-ill patient nowhere near death's door, like https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted... . And the just the act of suggesting it can cause someone to commit suicide, that's why news media have to be careful how they present articles involving suicide: https://afsp.org/safereporting/ .


Please see my reply to your other post making this point.


> There's no significant savings to be found by killing the terminally ill more quickly

...Uh...

"Summary table 1 presents the net financial impact of providing MAID in 2021, under the current legislation as set out in bill C-14, which is used as a baseline for the cost estimate. 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”, 2021, https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.893653/publication.htm...

It's small in the scheme of healthcare budgets, but it's a stretch to call it not significant.




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