Have you noticed…

many of the same people who lament the legality of medically-assisted death are the very same people who support privatizing your healthcare?

"Doctors in Canada performed almost half of the world's organ transplants after MAID."

Canada's organ harvesting must make China jealous.

Euthanasia express lane…but look at all the organs we getting!#cdnpoli https://t.co/jamdeRQtv6

— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) January 17, 2023

I recently did a project with someone who had a horrific leg injury.

After the initial treatment doctors in Canada suggested nothing else can be done but amputation.

$250k later in the US & he has 2 functioning legs.

Surprised Canada's healthcare didn't recommend euthanasia.

— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) September 25, 2022

The same people who malign the Canadian healthcare system for leaving people feeling like assisted death is their only option want to make healthcare more expensive and more inaccessible to the very population already choosing to die.

And the weird thing is, they know medically-assisted death is chosen more often by those in poverty. But they still blame the federal government for creating a “eugenics program,” knowing full well they’ll be voting for the Conservatives in every upcoming election.

Conservative Policy is designed to protect the “haves.”

Conservative economic and even healthcare policies will forever enforce the poverty gap, not solve it. At no point has neo-conservatism in the vein of Reagan, Mulroney, and Thatcher ever succeeded in bridging the poverty gap. In the last 40 years, it’s only increased.

When you have people who are requesting MAiD because they are poor and their organs are being harvested for the middle and upper class…is that not just a class based eugenics program?

This is possibly the most disturbing Canadian article I have ever read.

— Russell host of the Canadian Conservative Podcast (@TheCanadianCon) January 17, 2023

It's a lie. Our hallway healthcare system is on life support. Too many people taking, not enough people giving back into the system.

— Russell host of the Canadian Conservative Podcast (@TheCanadianCon) January 18, 2023

Today, people are upset organ donation increased in tandem with the legalization of medically-assisted death, which is an unsurprising (even obvious!) stat, but people are nonetheless alarmed. And yet, there’s no logical basis behind trying to solve this problem by privatizing healthcare. Claiming to be pro-life while doing less than nothing to prevent death, and instead promoting policies that encourage it? It’s conservatism at it’s most abjectly moronic.

Privatization will make it next to impossible for Canadians in rural communities to access healthcare – even worse than it is for them now, because private health workers won’t be subsidized to remain in low-population areas, and therefore they’ll obviously leave. This has already happened in rural communities that tried a pay-for-service model.

Spectacular, heart-wrenching, poverty-inducing failure is what awaits the institution or expansion of provincial two-tier healthcare systems.

Every single one of you who supports these plans, please stop kidding yourselves. If you truly believe that medically-assisted death must be stopped, or that Canadian healthcare is in dire need of multiple improvements, you really should get on your provincial MPs about plans to forge ahead with privatization, rather than erroneously hoping an elected Conservative (OR Liberal!) federal government will do a damn thing to help people living with disabilities or terminal illness.

I’m not inferring you should vote for the third option, either. Politicians still – allegedly – work for us, so I’m telling you to get loud about provincial healthcare because even if you have your health today, you’ll one day need it, too, and you’ll have to hope like hell you can afford it.