Why are you jumping to criticize the "government incentives" when the incentives from privatized [0] "insurance" and self pay are much worse?
Privatized "insurance": Here is a list of ten specialists for your newly emerging condition who may or may not still be practicing. When you call each one on the telephone, make sure to double check that they actually take our "plan" regardless of them being on the list we gave you. If you do manage to find one taking new patients, their next appointment will be 6 months out after the two weeks it takes for us to write you a "referral". Or we can call someone who can stop your pain and they will be there tomorrow at 8AM sharp.
Self pay: You can give up your home equity to spend the next several months laying around in agony, or you can pass that money to your (grand)children to make their lives better.
[0] read: just as governing, but with drastically decreased accountability
The major cost drivers of Canada's single payer health care system are big-ticket tests and interventions: MRIs, surgery, etc. Palliative care is comparatively cheap, especially since it's often done at home with a visiting nurse coming by to inject morphine. There's no significant savings to be found by killing the terminally ill more quickly.
MAID is always a choice by a patient, not an option chosen by the health care system. And according to reports, in 96% of cases it's a really obvious choice: I'm going to die within a year anyway, in great, degenerative agony. I'd rather go of my own choosing while I still can choose, in a relatively painless way.
> There's no significant savings to be found by killing the terminally ill more quickly
...Uh...
"Summary table 1 presents the net financial impact of providing MAID in 2021, under the current legislation as set out in bill C-14, which is used as a baseline for the cost estimate. The predicted gross reduction in health care costs amounts to $109.2 million while the cost of administering MAID is estimated at $22.3 million. Thus, the difference between the two represents a net cost reduction for provincial governments of $86.9 million."
