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US people bankrupt because of medical bills (files.catbox.moe)
posted 1 year ago by Conspirologist on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +27Score on mirror )
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Your theory sounds great on paper but Canada is proof it doesn't work.
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fiskaren on scored.co
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> The average age of individuals at the time MAID was provided in 2022 was 77.0 years. The underlying medical conditions included cancer (63%), cardiovascular (18.8%), other at 14.9% (can be frailty, diabetes, chronic pain, autoimmune), respiratory (13.2%), and neurological conditions (12.6%). Seventy-seven percent of MAID recipients received palliative care and of the MAID recipients who did not receive palliative care 87.5% had access, a level similar to the three previous years

Since they started back in 2016 there's been 45,000 assisted deaths, making up roughly 4.1% of all deaths in Canada. With the average age being 77 years and 63% of those having cancer it does seem to be working. Cancer treatment is very expensive, heck it's one of the reasons why so many people in the US have gone bankrupt because of medical debt.

Why should a child have to die in cancer because the hospital prioritize to keep a 77 year old person alive for a few more months? Resources are limited, in fact with private healthcare it's even more limited as fewer people can afford treatment.
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