Socialist Magazine Shocked Canada’s Medical Assistance Suicide Program Used to Promote Euthanasia over Welfare
“Beginning to look like a dystopian end run around the cost of providing social welfare.”
The last time we checked on Canada’s Medical Assistance in Suicide (MAID) program, a Calgary judge had issued a ruling clearing the way for a 27-year-old woman to volunteer for life-ending procedures despite her father’s attempts through the courts to prevent that from happening.
Truly, Canada is a progressive utopia…or is it?
We have been sounding the alarm for quite some time about the disturbing direction Canadian medical advice has been heading for quite some time. For example, a Canadian Forces veteran was seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury when he was casually offered MAID.
Jacobin Magazine, a publication for socialists that reports having a circulation of 75,000, finds the promotion of euthanasia over welfare disturbing,
Disability and other advocates have been warning us for years that MAiD puts people at risk. They warned that the risk of people choosing death — because it’s easier than fighting to survive in a system that impoverishes people, and disproportionately does so to those who are disabled — is real. Underinvestment in medical care will push people up to and beyond the brink, which means some will choose to die instead of “burden” their loved ones or society at large. They were right.
Canada now has one of the highest assisted-death rates in the world. As the Guardian reported in February, 4.1 percent of deaths in the country were physician-assisted — and the number is growing, up 30 percent between 2021 and 2022. In a survey of just over 13,100 people who opted for MAiD, a significant majority — 96.5 percent — chose to end their lives in the face of terminal illness or imminent death, Leyland Cecco, author of the report, noted. But 463 chose it in the face of “a chronic condition.”
A libertarian ethos partially underwrote the fact that not many people blinked when MAiD was initially rolled out. Taking a more expansive view of rights, many of those not swayed by rote libertarianism were convinced that concerns over bodily autonomy and compassion were reason enough to adopt MAiD. However, in the absence of a robust welfare state, and in the face of structural poverty and discrimination, particularly toward disabled people, there is no world in which the MAiD program can be understood to be “progressive.”
Indeed, last year, [Canadian journalist] Jeremy Appel argued that MAiD was “beginning to look like a dystopian end run around the cost of providing social welfare.”
In addition to Legal Insurrection, Twitchy contributor Amy Curtis has warned about this program.
This writer has written about Canada’s MAID program for a little while, each time warning people that this program would be abused by the government, applied as a cost-saving measure against the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. As the numbers of MAID ‘patients’ (victims would be a better word) rise, at least one Canadian PM praises it as ‘enhanced freedom’.
Apparently, Jacobin Magazine’s contributors are on a journey of discovery about the realities of Canada’s MAID program.
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Perhaps Jacobin Magazine contributors will expand their information sources in the future, as there have been warnings for quite some time this was the trajectory MAID was taking.
Despite the fact that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has publicly promised that no one would receive MAID “because [they’re] not getting the supports and cares that [they] actually need,” many are wondering if this is in fact true. Concern has been raised by those on the right and the left. Headlines from mainstream newspapers include the following: “Are Canadians being driven to assisted suicide by poverty or healthcare crisis?”, “‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws,” and “Why is Canada euthanizing the poor?”
The debate ramped up when journalist Alexander Raikin published a piece in the more conservative-leaning journal The New Atlantis providing evidence that euthanasia providers are aware that such cases are more common than many think. Among Raikin’s sources for such a claim were a set of virtual training seminars produced by the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, or CAMAP. These seminars advised providers on how to deal with the moral distress of providing MAID to patients who are driven to euthanasia because of poverty or inadequate social supports—in other words, patients who feel they have “no other options.”
Raikin chronicled a few such cases in depth. The subjects said things like “I cannot afford to live . . . what do I do? . . . MAID is the only choice I can see for a way out” and “the suffering I experience is mental suffering, not physical. I think if more people cared about me, I might be able to handle the suffering caused by my physical illnesses alone.”
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Socialist shocked to find out socialism doesn’t work in reality like it does in head. Declares “No one could have predicted this” while refusing to acknowledge that the everyone on the right told him this would be the outcome.
Sarah Palin, for all her shortcomings, was absolutely correct to raise awareness about the trajectory of public healthcare system where budgets are limited. Inevitably the system rations available care, limits appointments, delays screening/treatment. Couple that with morally ambiguous policies allowing ‘voluntary’ euthanasia and the result doesn’t differ too far from the death panels she warned against. IMO, many folks make the error of using CA as the example of what the future holds for.the rest of the USA when it seems more correct to look to Canada.
SP, like Trump, was right about a lot of things
Yes indeed Trump got/still gets the big picture issues ID correctly. His major failing, aside from quibbling about his combative communication style that probably repels as many as it attracts, is following through in implementing the solutions to the problems he correctly identifies; border wall as one example. Was the DC establishment opposed? Yep. They were before 2015 and still are. Did the DC establishment work in opposition? Yep. The issue for me though is did Trump do EVERYTHING in his power to get it done? Unfortunately he didn’t b/c he failed to use the most powerful tool a President has; the VETO.
dont forget that at least 8 gop voterd against trumps border wall
same way the swamp didnt help him fight pelosi and the omars when he wanted to stop flights in from china but allowed fjb to go forwartd with this:
Washington CNN —
The Biden administration’s new, stricter Covid-19 testing requirements for all travelers coming to the United States will take effect on Monday, an administration official told CNN.
The new rules will require each traveler flying into the US from another country to test negative one day before their departure, changing rules that had allowed inbound travelers to test up to three days before entering the country. The new rule from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Monday.
The shift in policy – which President Joe Biden announced Thursday alongside a slate of new steps to combat Covid-19 this winter – underscores the potential threat posed by the newly discovered Omicron variant. Scientists are still working to determine how transmissible the variant is, how sick it makes people and how well the current vaccines work against it.
“Experts say that Covid-19 cases will continue to rise in the weeks ahead and this winter,” the President said. “So we need to be ready.”
True and Trump had an option to use his VETO on that and every other piece of legislation until full funding for the border wall was appropriated for its construction.
No doubt the DC establishment led by Paul Ryan and McConnell did their best to prevent getting funding appropriated. Turns out it was enough b/c when the showdown came Trump declined to fight and use his VETO and here we are. No excuses for Ryan and McConnell being duplicitous little dipshits but no excuses for Trump failing to use his most powerful tool to get the solution he promised during the campaign pushed, pulled or dragged over the damn finish line.
It annoys the everlovin’ crap out of me that Donald Trump entirely missed understanding one of his greatest powers, when a pissant like Katie Hobbs instinctively knows how to work it right out of the box, and has been demoralizingly successful with it.
(Note the date on the article — she broke the state veto record over a year ago, after only three months in office!)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But in practice, there is.
One of my favorites!
Given the jacobite article literally states the following “Disability and other advocates have been warning us for years that MAiD puts people at risk.” There isn’t really any shock involved, clearly the authors were aware of an issue for sometime. Secondly this is a particular issue with respect to one particular program, your making an expansive claim on the system as a whole which just doesn’t logically follow.
Easily predicted outcome is shocking?
Yet another time when the “Slippery Slope” proved to not be a fallacy.
It is a fallacy, the issue here is poverty inducement to the program. The fallacious reasoning here is that offering a means for people to die means that in and of itself people will choose to die as opposed to a small subset of people genuinely and an informed manner choosing an out without external pressure.
If they like what’s going on with MAiD, they’re going to love the natural next step in Socialist Progress: SPAiD (Secret Police Assistance in Dying).
And so the abortionist rejection of the sanctity of human life has lead to this. And majorities of blithering young idiots in some US states ignorantly fall over backward to support the state abortion on demand proposals sponsored by planned parenthood and other vile parties. The adults in the room, if any are left, better sober up and act.
“The last time we checked on Canada’s Medical Assistance in Suicide (MAID) program.”
MAID? Medical Assistance in Death would be more accurate.
Completion of life’s experiences. So many euphemisms can be generated to cover over Darwinism Socialism. What part of 1930s Germany are they missing? The Left embraces what the KKK wanted. Now they embrace Nazism.
the left has ALWAYSSSSS been for government over the people
they have always been naziand communist
its the schools that said/taught different and the msm goes along with it
and as you can tell from the “normalizing” of males in female sports etc
people just go along with it
cause its easier to them
Do you know when Justin Trudeau is lying? It’s when his lips are moving.
Also, “progressive” like most Leftists’ terms is the opposite of what it normally means.
its nottttt your money ,, says lefty
here is how they treat their athletes
Canadian Paralympian Christine Gauthier told the House of Commons’ veterans affairs committee last week that she was offered an assisted death during her five-year fight for a wheelchair ramp in her home.
“Ms. Gauthier, surely you can see the position of the NHS with regard to your ramp. Think of how many others we could end – err – save if you chose the easy path, it’s for the good of everyone. I mean, think of how expensive your absurd ramp will be? We’re certain you don’t want to be a burden for the Fatherland….”
Fatherland, motherland…. hum…. what would Canada be referred to as? Disneyland is already taken and Never Never Land is also off the table.
And Castroville is already a city in Texas.
Just wait until later when it turns into a convenient way to get rid of “undesirables.”
“You’re a conservative? We’re not going to treat your cancer at all. Would you rather die now or die painfully later? And of course we’ll bankrupt your family in the process.”
“ concerns over bodily autonomy and compassion were reason enough to adopt MAiD.”…..
As Canada so demonstrated during Covid these are two things they absolutely do not give a damn about. Mark my words at some point this MAiD will be mandatory for certain people. And should you try to get your loved one out of Canada to stop it… they will block you just like we saw with several high profile cases in the UK.
SP, like Trump, was right about a lot of things lots of off road ways to get out of Canada
this MAiD will be mandatory
Of course. Just to do a little clean up around here, naturally.
Trudeau dismisses plea from doctors to reconsider capital gains tax change
‘We are asking the most successful in this country to do a little bit more,’ Trudeau said
The doctors warn that the tax change could undermine efforts to recruit and retain physicians in Canada and threaten the stability of the health-care system.
Canada is facing a severe doctor shortage. An estimated 6.5 million Canadians are going without access to primary care as family physicians retire en masse and medical schools struggle to recruit new residents to replace them.
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No problemo, just get rid of most of the doctors, but keep a bunch for yourself and very, very close friends.
Why suffer the heartbreak of psoriasis when MAiD is available?
“MAiD was “beginning to look like a dystopian end run around the cost of providing social welfare.”
To paraphrase Thatcher, the problem with socialized medicine is that eventually your life runs out of other people’s money.
Nicely done. May I borrow that?
I don’t see why not.
Ironically, unlike tax money, you can’t ever exhaust good stuff to plagiarize!
Hey, now, I’m not running for President of a major university, or the US.
It would be nice if everyone could have affordable healthcare. I don’t see how a government bureaucracy could possibly provide that. An entrenched bureaucracy is the definition of inefficiency.
Our current system is not doing well for many people. The first thing to address is the cost of healthcare. Restrictions on med school admissions, on what nurses can do instead of doctors, lawsuits, and much more. My feeling is that only someone like Trump would be capable of fixing this.
Yes. And, oh, my it’s worse than that.
As we keep getting smarter, what can be done expands; even what’s worth doing or trying expands. I have two friends alive (and working), and several years of my late mother’s vision all dependent on novel treatments. If it’s worth more than it costs, spending more is progress. Personal healthy life is one of people’s top goods, and enables near all of the others.
That is if there’s innovation, price, and outcome transparency: when there’s a market. When there’s not a market, a mandated rake-off up to 17% of the economy seems a bit much, especially if you’re one of us on the outside of the caper.
The problem is people don’t trust the delivery, access, costs or pricing. 17% of the economy — one bogie bandied about during the ACA PR campaign — is a good thing if people are getting that much more healthy life. It’s an uncomfortably big mandated rake-off, at least for any of us outside the caper.
Health Care is different than health insurance but your point is valid. The vested interests of health insurance, pharmaceutical companies, the various medical provider guilds creating artificial barriers to entry and of course the folks who have good employer based health insurance all work together to prevent meaningful changes.
IMO, we should at the federal level fund a small private premium for catastrophic health insurance for every Citizen. Then add $500 a year (adjusted for health care inflation) to an HSA Health Savings Account for each Citizen. That way every Citizen has protection from huge costs as.the result of injury, trauma. Yes the deductible would be high, maybe $5,000 annually but they would be covered beyond that and their accumulated HSA $ could fund the deductible or a charity or go fund me or family members could assist each other.
Then demand complete transparency for cost of services and competence of medical provider /hospital/ clinic. Give consumers informed choices. How to pay for it? This is the hard part.. eliminate tax deductions for all benefits provided by employers. Treat contributions to premiums and everything else given to employees as Wage Income. Gonna be lots of resistance, primarily from public/private unions who secured these benefits as part of negotiating and they will.scream bloody murder.
Thanks, Chief for your thoughtful comment!
I don’t see how the health insurance can be improved without dealing with the cost of healthcare first.
And even then, as you point out, the madnesses of former stupid ideas are now so baked in that it would require something nuclear to change them. No matter what changes are made, some would be hurt. And the next change in government would attempt to undo the previous government’s changes.
“Complete transparency for cost of services and competence of medical provider /hospital/ clinic” would be an excellent start. I think Trump tried to do that. Powerful forces are against it.
Follow the money. The “socialists” are so greedy they don’t care who they kill as long as they get rich and live and rule like kings. Surprised he didn’t offer getting offed by the state to the older folks instead of telling them he’s going after their life long earnings.
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