Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Socialized Medicine's Inevitable End: Physician Assisted Suicide

With the growing sentiment from the left side of the aisle in favor of "Medicare for all", one should look at other countries at how big brother run healthcare has a dark side. 

The Christian Post reported the following tragic story a couple of days ago,
"The family of a Canadian man says the government-run healthcare system failed their son who felt his only option was to die by physician-assisted suicide after his requests for home healthcare were denied. 
Forty-one-year-old Sean Tagert died on Aug. 6 after Vancouver Coastal Health, a publicly-funded healthcare provider, refused to cover the 24-hour in-home healthcare his doctor said he needed, the CBC reported earlier this month. The provider said it would cover 15 to 20 hours a day for care, but Tagert would be required to pay for the remaining hours at a cost of $7,905 a month, which he could not afford."
Mr. Tagert was suffering from ALS, and I know these patients will eventually require 24/7 care. Mr. Tagert had his home set up so that he would not have to be institutionalized someplace where staffing would not be able to provide for his comfort. Placement in an understaffed facility was the option his health plan offered.

Physician assisted suicide saved Canada time and money in this case, but at what cost?

Once you surrender medical ethics to a secular government, what will be next?






  

1 comment:

  1. Katherine12:02 PM

    Once the government begins to decide whose life is "worth" treatment and whose isn't, the slippery slope is greased up and tilted down. Beware.

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