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I think quadriplegic people should be able to end their life if they so choose. This shouldn’t be a controversial opinion at all.

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Yeah the article wants to make it about the bedsore, bit the guy is probably sick of being paralyzed

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Yep, and MAID is particularly useful in situations where one is physically unable to off themselves. Wanting someone who doesn’t want to be around to remain trapped in that state is extremely cruel.

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Always remember the government will always fuck it up

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Are you suggesting we switch to privatised healthcare?

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How about we switch to ACTUAL public healthcare, not one where hospitals and doctors offices have to turn a profit delivering services at a price set by the government?

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Honestly I don’t have an opinion on that. In the immortal words of Donald Trump, “nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated”

I’m not gonna pretend I have the answers. I’m not a policy expert. But from what I’ve seen, I think our system works pretty well when it’s well-funded. Maybe a different public system would work even better, IDK.

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Now now now, let’s not get crazy and expect a reasonable idea to be the right one.

Obviously the only way forward is privatized healthcare, and maximized profits, until the lower class revolts and we do it all over again.

Everyone who gets it needs to start explaining to everyone who doesn’t why public services should never be expected to make profit, should be expected and accepted that public services generally operate at a loss, and that none of that is a bad thing. Canada is in desperate need of a narrative change and a legislative overhaul if we are going to survive what is coming as a intact country.

System failure is a fun thing. We need to trim the bloat to try and avoid it.

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Naaah, just privatized suicide services. Oh wait, we have those, we call them long term care.

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No, that we get rid of maid specifically. Maybe review everything, but the tax paid healthcare seems to work as a whole. It just has a few issues that need to be addressed, just like any other system

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We can’t just get rid of it, as the SCC has ruled that MAID is a constitutional right.

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Generally through lack of funding, especially in areas like healthcare.

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There is more than enough funding for healthcare.

Mismanagement of that money is the biggest problem and always has been.

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There is more than enough funding for healthcare.

No there isn’t. Gov’ts (both fed and prov) have consistently underfunded healthcare. Trudeau did try and help by giving billions to the provinces - tied to the provinces agreeing to spend ALL the money on healthcare - but the premiers stonewalled Trudeau and he caved. So provincial leaders get to spend those billions on whatever they want, just like the spoiled, snotty-nosed brats they’ve become.

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