Posted on 12/11/2022 11:42:33 PM PST by grundle
The National Post reports that Jennyfer Hatch, the 37-year-old woman who became a poster girl for assisted suicide in a recent Canadian short film, embraced suicide only after failing to secure proper health care. Simons, a Canadian clothes retailer, released a video, All Is Beauty, romanticizing her death. Really, she wanted to live.
CTV News confirmed that Hatch was the same woman who had spoken to it anonymously last summer “about her failed attempts to find proper treatment for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare and painful condition in which patients suffer from excessively fragile skin and connective tissues.” In June, Hatch told CTV: “I thought, ‘Goodness, I feel like I’m falling through the cracks so if I’m not able to access health care am I then able to access death care?’ And that’s what led me to look into MAID and I applied last year.”
Unfortunately, if you give people the choice between a difficult life and an easy death, they’ll be tempted to pick the latter. And, what’s more, if you give the state the choice between an expensive life or a cheap death, it’ll likely pick the latter. There is nothing remotely “beautiful” about that. It’s barbaric.
I miss the good old days when the establishment insisted the death panels were a conspiracy theory, and didn’t make commercials praising their wisdom and beauty.
Inevitably, that’s what all socialist health care becomes. At first it’s hailed by the Left as superior in every way. But they don’t know where the end of that road leads.
The foundation of all socialist policies is pain, suffering and death. No surprise here.
Socialism is a scam and well exemplified here.
They bring in plenty of cash but mostly use it for lavish salaries and benefits for their own employees.
A big chunk of the remainder is basically skimmed so politicians can direct cash to friendly companies who’s owners funnel a bunch back to their campaigns.
The bit that remains is not enough to perform the work they promised above the employees time.
Milton Freidman pointed out, long ago, that the demand for health care is unlimited, resources are not. There is no good way to allocate resources between healthcare and spending on comforts and entertainment. His example was dialysis, an expensive treatment that was subsidized by the government at the time, but expensive. He warned that the number of such examples could become limitless.
But as the author says, if you give bureaucrats and politicians a choice between an expensive life or cheap death, they’ll chose death every time.
I thought this was going to be about Rachel Corey.
thought this was going to be about Rachel Corey.
Mac’s wife? 🤣
Well. That joke fell flat.
Actually I think many of them especially the “elites” know exactly where the end of that road leads. It’s in fact their goal.
At least their systems are honestly open about it. Ours is a bunch of insurance administrators keeping us from optimal health by denying care that could treat the cause. And we are paying a thousand dollars a month for 2people while those in the ads openly boast about paying zero dollars. I looked into it and if you work, you cannot apply until your premiums Are 9.6%% of your income. So our rates were elraised to about 9.2 this year. Affordable, not. Care, marginally.
This is national health care. The warning is there, for those who want to see it.
The type of health care they advocate is preventative. Take care of yourself with a little assistance and you’ll live. Don’t, and you’ll die. We will help you with that. Simple as that.
LOL
Flat as a pancake apparently
I’m so glad my siblings and I were able to get my Canadian mom the hell out of there a few weeks ago. She’s 88 and suffering from dementia.
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