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Sounds like US propaganda tbh.
Oooh, don't use free healthcare, it'll kill you!
Personal anecdote, but here in Australia, to go through with voluntary assisted dying is a whole process. You need three separate doctor signatures, each to witness and two extra witnesses, whether it's relevant healthcare team or personal friends of the one dying and you need multiple people to physically continue the dying for every step of the way.
I know it sounds like it, but I've read too many stories and articles about doctors pushing it on their patients "Just to free up a few beds", and how people who originally campaigned for MAID's passage regretted how dark it got when it was amended so that you don't have to actually be dying the qualify.
Even healthcare workers are sounding the alarms, that MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) is literally being pushing on people by doctors and for increasingly minor things.
Here's an article I found just now googling "Canada MAID"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/some-health-care-workers-in-canada-grappling-with-patients-requesting-euthanasia
I'm on the side of universal healthcare, it's barbaric that America doesn't have it just so private health insurers can murder for profit... And for what it's worth, this MAID issue does seem to be a uniquely Canadian problem. Other nations with euthanasia programs do not seem to have this issue.
Except that article does not in any way suggest doctors are "pushing" it on people for "minor things".
Where did you read these "stories and articles", because it sounds a lot like the "death panels" republicans were screeching about when the ACA was passed.
They were on AP
Who is “they”, and what were they supposedly doing on AP?
The articles about doctors pushing MAID onto patients. Even then, the fact that it's being offered to people who aren't dying or even suffering major illness is troubling enough.