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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by lotsofpulp on Thursday December 12, 2024 @08:24PM (#42405166)
That does not make any sense. Old people’s healthcare gets paid by the US government, literally everyone up and down the healthcare chain earns more profit by extending someone’s life who would rather die.
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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by bdndndndbve on Saturday December 14, 2024 @09:06AM (#42417217)
Wait, so if you cut out the middleman, doctors would make more money keeping people alive and the government would pay for it? Huh that's the opposite of "death panels".

Meanwhile private insurers definitely deny coverage to people with chronic illnesses (not everyone who is sick or dying is on Medicare/Medicaid). In a single-payer system those folks wouldn't slip through the cracks and .... the doctors would be incentivized to keep them alive! (assuming doctors are profit-motivated sociopaths like your average HN poster)

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