Canadian Health Care Refused to Pay for
Disabled Father's Care, but Happily Paid
for His Assisted Suicide
PJ Media,
by
John Ellis
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
8/16/2019 8:14:50 AM
The well-known platitude "but for the grace of God go I" played in my brain while reading the tragic story of a disabled Canadian father who chose to end his own life, leaving behind an 11-year-old son. It would be easy to judge Sean Tagert, who was diagnosed with ALS six years ago. Do I believe he made the wrong choice? Sure. But I wasn't the one who was struggling to pay for my health care after losing my ability to breath on my own or feed myself. I'm not the one living under Canada's health care system that was more than happy to pay for my suicide
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 8/16/2019 8:31:37 AM (No. 153705)
And they called Sarah Palin crazy...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chabis 8/16/2019 8:42:23 AM (No. 153712)
Why either or? As long as it's the person's own choice, and not some government agency, why not both?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KatieJo 8/16/2019 8:48:19 AM (No. 153714)
It really is THEIR money don't you know. Why should the STATE pay to keep you alive when for a small fee they can have you exterminated? Saves money.
Early on during the lead up to the passing of Obamacare, I remember a lawmaker demanding to know what the insurance companies bring to the table. I remembered wondering what, besides dysfunction and misery, does the government bring to the table. I guess I left out death.
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We get to see the results of liberal policy before making those mistakes. Unfortunately we have dems here who rush to socialized medicine like Canada and socialism like Venezuela. You would think they are stuck on stupid, but actually they are plotting total dependence on their government, which gives them the power over life and death.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 8/16/2019 9:07:31 AM (No. 153739)
Who on earth would want to live under these circumstances? I sure wouldn't. If I'm suffering and there will be no relief, then give me the blue pill.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/16/2019 10:07:53 AM (No. 153801)
Sounds like Obamacare. Remember the question about the 90 year mother who need a pacemaker and Obama's answer, "you take a pill and go home". The old saying save the young and let the weak and old die off. There's something about the left reviling in killing people.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jlw509 8/16/2019 10:34:40 AM (No. 153836)
#5.with good, palliative hospice care, there is no reason at all for "suffering without relief." Start-of-the-art care can absolutely remedy pain and and serious discomfort, especially for the terminally ill.
The disabilities of ALS, which are grave, can be borne by a man who wants to continue to relate to his 11-year-old son. He can give him the lifelong treasure of a matchless example: a father who could bear hardship with courage, for the sake of love and connection.
In home-hospice care, my own father bore grave disability with such a good heart, that all of his CNA's came to his funeral --- something they rarely do, since they see dying all the time. But they came to his funeral because they got to know him well --- the Lord gave him 2 1/2 years after he'd been given 6 months by the doctors --- and the CNA's and all the caregivers, honoring his passing, loved him for his brave heart, his sweetness and his faith.
None of them will ever forget. And speaking for his family, neither will we.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimJr 8/16/2019 11:05:01 AM (No. 153874)
Make no mistake, that is the intended result. Those deemed to be of little use to society are left to die or outright killed. He was, in a word, "Obsolete".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obsolete_Man
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/16/2019 11:14:02 AM (No. 153889)
"Death panels" was no exaggeration. They want you dead, not using up "their" resources.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Redwing57 8/16/2019 10:10:51 PM (No. 154403)
It will eventually become a simple calculation. Are you worth more dead or alive? Are you a net positive, or a net negative? Younger person, paying taxes... how much to repair vs. expected tax stream? If a positive payback, then pay for health care. Old person, retiree, on Social Security? No health care, "Take an aspirin.". Let 'em die, it's a net positive for the government.
Bureaucrats already run too much health care, make too many decisions. Insurance coverage dictates care received. Let the government completely take that over? Oh my....
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