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'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."
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.