[USNBandit]

Did you read the whole article? The conclusion was that physician assisted suicide would only cut health costs by .07 percent.

One issue with that conclusion is that their model was the Netherlands. the article makes it sound like that is the choice of the patient. In Oregon the choice for the poor is being made by the state.

[Daisyjane69]

You win the prize, IMO.

That is the operative notion...who decides. And as the Washington Post article explained yesterday, it’s not as innocent as it seems (in the bill as written):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703043.html?hpid=opinionsbox1