MAiD and money
MAiD {medical assistance in dying} was introduced in Canada in 2016 by the Liberal Party of Canada government under Justin Trudeau through Bill C-14, upgrade in 2021 through Bill C-7 by the same regime. And the purpose? Looks is just all about money.
This study explores the potential economic savings from expanding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada. These groups include individuals with severe mental health issues, the homeless, drug users, retired elderly, and indigenous communities.
Both voluntary and non-voluntary scenarios were analyzed, projecting total savings of up to CAD $1.273 trillion by 2047. With an estimated 2.6 million deaths in the voluntary scenario, mostly among mentally ill and elderly populations, this cost-saving measure raises significant ethical concerns. Financially incentivizing MAiD could shift healthcare priorities away from providing necessary support, potentially devaluing vulnerable lives and fostering a troubling reliance on assisted death as an economic solution.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00302228251323299
So how much B.C. doctors get pay for euthanasia?
What the numbers show is that British Columbia’s health system pays doctors much more to euthanize a patient than the $327.48 listed in its public fee schedule. {page 118- 120}
But the total cost of euthanizing a single patient can be as much as eight times greater—about $2,600 per patient, including assessment for and prescribing MAiD, a mandatory second assessment, euthanasia drugs, explanation of the MAiD waiver form, and day-of “preparation and procedure.”
It means the B.C. government could spend up to $8.6 million enabling the estimated 3,300 MAiD deaths the province is on track to record for the year 2025.
The cost could also rise a further $600 per patient for rarer and more complex “MAiD Track 2” cases, in which the patient’s death is not reasonably foreseeable.
“These figures aren’t trivial,” said Dr. Will Johnston, a Vancouver family physician who heads the Euthanasia Resistance Coalition in B.C.. “Some doctors are being really well paid to do this. They are very well paid to just ask people if they want to die, and then to kill them.”
The province’s taxpayer-funded Medical Services Plan pays doctors for 100 per cent of all MAiD-related “medical” services, and B.C.’s taxpayer-funded Pharmacare plan pays all the costs of the three drugs most commonly used to take a patient’s life.
However, the government does not publish the price of the three drugs commonly used in euthanasia: midazolam, a sedative that causes sleep; propofol, which causes a deep coma; and rocuronium, which paralyzes the patient, causing death by suffocation.
https://canadiancatholicnews.ca/maid-can-make-b-cs-euthanasia-doctors-rich/
Statistics shows, MAiD now accounts for 5.1 percent of all deaths in Canada – one in every 20 deaths was due to MAiD in 2024, with a total of 16,499 MAiD deaths reported by Health Canada’s latest Annual Report. As of December 31, 2024, a total of 76,475 Canadians have died by Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) since the federal legislation was introduced.
The mental illness as a sole qualifying condition remains postponed until March 2027, critics argue the current framework already blurs lines between physical suffering and the emotional, financial, and social hardships many working-class Canadians face.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, public trust in Canada’s healthcare system and its collaboration with government has declined significantly, and there are concerns that euthanasia under the MAiD program increase further this fall.
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