Posted on 04/28/2019 8:03:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When governments take charge of medical care and expenditures on prolonging life come out of the same pool of money used for the military, road-building, schools and all the other functions of government, the bureaucrats who are the decision-makers have every incentive to encourage a rapid death, if not insist upon it.
Our northern neighbor Canada offers an example of the slippery slope. Wesley J. Smith writes on National Review Online:
Canadian doctors committed thousands of homicides in 2018. According to an interim report published by the government, in the first ten months of last year, doctors lethally injected 2, 613 patients (with one assisted suicide) — and that doesn’t include the homicides committed by doctors in Quebec, Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut.
This means well over 3,000 people are killed by their doctors each year in Canada, which — if my math is correct — is more than 250 a month, more than 58 a week, and more than eight per day. Heck, that’s about one every three hours.
This won't hurt much, and it will soon be over, anyway
Smith notes that already 1.12 % of all deaths in Canada are by euthanasia. And, as he points out, the “reforms” that allowed this are recent, so the numbers are going to increase.
The United States has more than ten times the population of Canada, minus Quebec and the territories omitted from the statistics. So, extrapolating, 30,000 Americans or more would be at risk for being killed because their treatment is regarded as too expensive, if single payer medicine, aka “Medicare for All” comes to this country.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
But, let me guess, there’s no death penalty in Canuckistan.
You can almost bet that if we were ever have a system like this here color and ethnicity under diversity and equality would come into play. Meaning if you are white privileged you are trumped by a person of color or ethnicity, illegal transgender, gay, lesbian and yes a women over a man if you are 14 to 41 you are worth more to the state than at any other time in your life. If you are elderly and sick and hospitalized your family will be notified that you had passed of natural causes, elimination
WOW, interesting comparative study. Thanks for posting. I’ll add this study to my DBase.
Bump
“I’m sorry boys, but the government had Mama put to sleep.
They said the money to cure her was needed to hire three cousins for no work government jobs.”
Terminally ill people can’t vote and are dispatched.
Well, if they’re no longer ‘contributing’...
Hard to blame the Left for that position, after all, it is NO DIFFERENT than Hitler’s position on the same [non-contributors].
Are abortions included in this or are they a separate statistic?
In the 1930’s there was a single payer plan that called them “Useless Eaters” and had them dispatched.
Stand by old people. Do you think a country that allows infanticide will hesitate to execute you?
My friends here don’t understand why I oppose “Right to Die”.
I try explaining that state permission to end one’s life WILL become the DUTY to do so once the state has its toe in the door.
Proof is this article, with many more to come I am sure. Look at the Netherlands and Denmark for further evidence of my theory.
There was a doc in Columbus OH who killed something like 30 people over the past couple of years. I am surprised this hasn’t been national news.
The cruel fact is that if you don't want someone else making that decision for you, you must be the one signing the check.
But when it’s the bureaucrat’s turn to die, they start screaming! Just like always...
Liberals
They want to kill you before your born
Then they want to kill you when you’re old
In between they tolerate all kinds of behavior that causes premature death
I.e. Chicagoland and sexual licentiousness
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