Defending MAID Against Baseless Attacks

In today's National Post, I respond to charges that MAID is being or might be used to curb elder and health care costs.

• “Anything can be abused.”    
• “And everything is abused.”
• “But it’s ridiculous to say any service that you provide would ever be provided at a hundred per cent perfect level. Nothing is.”
• “It’s pretty darn safe,” Pope said, noting that there’s “absolutely zero evidence” of MAID being foisted upon people to trim costs.
•  “The problem is not that we’re hastening people into death to save money; the problem is that we are foisting more and more and more treatment upon people because it benefits the health-care providers, even though it doesn’t benefit the patients."
• “The far bigger risk is not letting people die.”