Canada is an outlier in both our severe restrictions on private delivery of healthcare services, and our extremely ‘permissible’ state-sponsored suicide regime. That isn’t a coincidence.
One of the most effective arguments against extremism is that the ‘common-sense’ way of doing something has emerged through trial and error over time, and thus has some underlying truth that exists whether we are consciously aware of it or not.
Many systems become more and more complex over time as they grow, and if that complexity has built up largely due to countless decentralized decisions by individuals, heavy-handed outside intervention can lead to immense ‘unintended’ consequences.
Look at how many governments seemed to think they could just shut down the economy and then ‘turn it on again,’ oblivious to the fact that such a complex system doesn’t work that way.
Here in Canada, we are seeing the growing consequences of two very extreme approaches being taken in ‘healthcare.’
Canada has among the highest level of restrictions in the world when it comes to private delivery of healthcare services. Even countries like France, which will proudly proclaim they have have ‘socialist’ healthcare system, have a much larger role for private healthcare than we do here in Canada.
That mix of public and private healthcare has been tested over a long-period of time, and gets the best results.
Indeed, many countries – particularly our per-capita-GDP peers in Europe – have universal coverage with a mix of private and public delivery.
Those countries tend to spend less for better results:
Canada’s healthcare system is an extremist outlier.
It is among the most socialist in the world, and it drives away both innovation and talent.
It is also far worse than even the moribund statistics show, because the US private system takes much of the pressure off by providing care to tens of thousands of Canadians who are willing to pay for it.
But now, you may be asking what this has to do with Canada’s state-sponsored suicide regime?
Well, we can see how the extreme restrictiveness of the healthcare system has led to the extreme permissibility of the state-sponsored suicide regime.
For the government, the number one imperative is to keep the myth of the socialized system alive.
When reality doesn’t match up with the myth (how can a system be ‘universal’ when it collapses and people can’t access healthcare), the myth must be ‘altered’.
So, if the system can’t really offer healthcare to everyone, it can at least easily offer death to everyone.
And if you reframe death as another form of healthcare, than voila, the myth is preserved.
Though some may not want to admit it due to how dystopian and disturbing it sounds, the fact is that Canada’s state-sponsored suicide regime is being used to ‘take the pressure’ of a healthcare system that has failed and is in a state of collapse.
How long will Canada avoid reality
The horrific and rapid trend of the government offering state-assisted-suicide so widely and easily represents the endpoint of a failed socialist system.
Sooner or later, the healthcare system will have to become more innovative, more open, and yes, more privatized.
We will have to make more room for private delivery of healthcare services, which can be done while still maintaining universal access.
Yet, for those who remain wedded to the rigid and failed socialized system, that is unthinkable.
So, they will try literally anything to prop up the myth, including pushing a massive expansion of state-sponsored suicide.
Thus, the longer our country refuses to accept the inevitable need for more private healthcare delivery, the socialized healthcare system will increasingly become the socialized death system.
Spencer Fernando
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