Canada weighs paying doctors a premium for euthanasia (The slippery slope is real)

American Thinker ^ | 08/07/2017 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

The slippery slope is real.  Once the state gets in the business of killing off its citizens via euthanasia, the brutal logic of economics works its way through the system.  In Canada, which legalized euthanasia just over a year ago, one of the most important forums for political discussion, Maclean's Magazine, published an article arguing that doctors ought to be paid a premium for killing off euthanizing terminal patients.

And of course, it was all so reasonable in tone.  It really is a lot of work for the doctors, you see.

Most providers need to meet with their patient a couple times before the procedure. They need to review their medical history, which in many cases is lengthy and complicated, involving several specialists and care providers. They need to counsel the family, sometimes for hours and over multiple visits if some members oppose the procedure or feel conflicted. They need to pick up the drugs at the pharmacy and return the extra medication when they're done. And they often need to travel long distances to meet the patient in their home. The amount of time it all takes varies wildly from patient to patient, says Daws, but most providers say it takes a minimum of three and a half hours. In that time, a family doctor could earn double the MAID rate by doing routine office work, and many specialists could earn triple that amount at their day job.

So the solution obviously is to incentivize them.

The state incentivizing doctors to kill patients.  And this is OK?

[SandRat]

That matches so well with abortion. </EXTREME RIDICULE of this

[Jyotishi]

M.D. = Merchant of Death — is this what it’s coming to?

[Gay State Conservative]

Getting paid to kill people? Why didn't *I* think of that?

[RayChuang88]

I think if we want euthanasia, there should be a lot of onerous requirements just to get to that point. That way, we discourage it unless family members, the patient’s primary care doctor, and the executor of the patient’s estate all agree to the procedure.

[BeauBo]

Those physicians who shirk from inducing an economic rate of euthanasia, will themselves be euthanized.

[rktman]

👹. Are they taking nominees?

[PSUGOP]

I was a “hell no this is wrong” person. Now that I am 55 and my parents and other loved ones are at deaths door, my position is not so concrete. It is tough to watch crazed seniors, with dementia so bad they have no idea what they are doing, who they are or what is going on around them.

I sure as heaven don’t want to put my kids through what my mom is putting my dad and I through.

[Garth Tater]

There is plenty of money to be made in the last months of a terminally ill patient’s life. You are going to have to give them some incentive if you want them to kill off a golden goose.

[reg45]

Welcome to The Kervorkian Klinik of Kanada.

[butlerweave]

and the Dr’s should start right away on the Politicians

[FatherofFive]

Sarah Palin was an idiot for suggesting Obamacare would lead to Death Panels. /s

[mewzilla]

I saw a family member through ten years of vascular dementia. At no time did I consider killing her.

[AustinBill]

This is already "baked into" the system. It's how aging baby boomers will be "assisted" off the planet. It's simply the natural consequence of promoting a culture of death for decades with legalized abortion-on-demand, and undermining morals and social norms at every opportunity.

My advice to my fellow boomers is simple: stay healthy. Those who will be making these decisions for us have been well indoctrinated.

[BykrBayb]

I’ve been my husband’s caregiver for nine years, with hopefully many years to come. It’s hard work. It’s heartbreaking. It’s exhausting. I do not consider murder to be a viable solution to the problems we face. I screen out people who do think that’s a viable solution. If I fail, and one of you gets through, and succeeds in carrying out your solution, you will live just long enough to regret it.

[G Larry]

I was docked a full grade for predicting this in a mid-term biology exam over 40 years ago.

Didn’t seem to affect my career in Aerospace.

[Pride in the USA]

This is a real life horror movie.

[right way right]

God Bless You.

[batterycommander]

I’m 76 and I have many serious ailments, and many doctors. Every time i visit one, the first question they ask is: Do you have any advance directives? I always get the feeling they are searching for a way to “put me down”, like I’m a 22 year old dachshund that’s had his last meal. I have to keep working to pay for these blood suckers, and all they want to do is put me away.

[loveliberty2]

Faith and trust in a loving Divine Providence, whose wisdom and understanding is limitless, may have purposes which "our little finite instruments" cannot fathom when we find ourselves in the "caretaker" role, and the life we had imagined is turned upside down.

That knowledge gives a certain peace. Sometimes, grandchildren, or others of the current generations may observe and learn life lessons for themselves.

Just a thought . . . .