Presently, there are twelve States, including the most populous State, which is California, that permit what they like to call “physician-assisted dying,” which is, in essence, despite the semantics, euthanasia. In truth, it shouldn’t even be called euthanasia because that seems like a rather sanitized term for the deliberate and premeditated taking of another person’s life, either assisted or not, but rather it should be seen for what it really is: state-sanctioned physicians being legally permitted to kill the patient, humanely, supposedly done via the patient’s uncoerced choice.
When it comes to the estimate of how much America currently spends on end-of-life care, it is estimated by debt.org that 10% of the $4.3 trillion spent on healthcare for 2021, which is $430 billion, was allocated to end-of-life healthcare. In consideration, that America is a nation that runs massive federal deficits and seems to be overly concern about reducing benefits to the general public, such as medical expenses, then it is no real leap of faith to believe that sooner as compared to later that this government is going to come up with financial incentives to get end-of-life patients to end their life sooner, so that the government can thereby save itself money and basically remove from their sight, those that have little or no utility to the government.
For all those that don’t believe that government would ever pay an end-of-life patient, money, that could thereby be subsequently allocated by the legal recipient(s) of such to whatever suited their purpose, they don’t seem to knowingly comprehend that the die has already been cast, by virtue of the fact that a significant amount of States are already in the business of killing patients through physician-assisted dying, in which, quite obviously, structured in the right way, potentially a whole lot of end-of-life patients would sign up to be euthanized if the money was right and thereby provided a benefit to their love ones as basically therefore representing their final will and testament to them.
Indeed, in this country which is so fixated upon money and seemingly nothing but the money, it makes logical sense that in this era of which never has there been so many old people, in rather poor health, with demographics that shows that we have fewer and fewer workers to carry the load of the expense of those older people, that it makes reasonable sense to concentrate on that segment of the population, so as to propagandize to them, their duty to simply call it a day, and thereby die for a price that seems sensible to them.
So too, it has got to be recognized that the day that this nation first permitted on an individual State level that it was absolutely fine for physicians to kill end-of-life patients, is the same day that this government determined that it wants to take it to the next level, and simply make it a numbers game, because it certainly isn’t about ethics, morality, or the inherent dignity of human life.