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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by raydev on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:16PM (#42405413)
> The government has no incentive to provide better housing or disability benefits to the working class when they can instead withhold those things and watch legions of poor & desperate people die.

What was Canada's excuse for poor healthcare before MAID existed then?

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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by lucubratory on Sunday December 15, 2024 @01:21AM (#42421882)
They didn't have a good one, and people were mad at them for it and demanded better results. MAID ameliorates both some of the direct anger ("We have improved healthcare by reducing suffering, look at how severe disability is declining"), and ameliorates some of the proximate causes (killing the sick, disabled, & homeless reduces load on the healthcare system & leaves more funds for other parts of it).
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