> slash healthcare costs When there’s a clear line-of-sight financial incentive in killing the citizenry, the policies will only further loosen qualifications

> slash healthcare costs When there’s a clear line-of-sight financial incentive in killing the citizenry, the policies will only further loosen qualifications and even incentives over time. This is how you go from a poster child of an advanced stage ALS patient to normalizing the government assisted death of a depressed diabetic. Will it become more frequent (rising from 5% of deaths)? Almost certainly. The knobs here are the qualifications and requirements, decided by financial incentive vs sense of decency. Where that line of collision will be is in age restrictions (minors) and qualifying health conditions. It’s also interesting to think about how this intersects with capital punishment. If the government can off a non-criminal in a profitable way, then something in the math we hear about capital punishment being more expensive than lifetime incarceration is grossly incorrect.