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In the US there will be share-holder lawsuits against insurance companies that do not enforce this strictly enough. It's just a return to a time when only the

• nradov 2y ago
  You seem to be confused about how US medical insurance companies operate. First, the majority of terminal patients are on government Medicare or Medicaid health plans. Second, commercial insurers have their profits capped by a minimum 85% medical loss ratio so they have no direct financial incentive to restrict care or push plan members towards assisted suicide. Rather the opposite.
  • EncomLab 2y ago
    As if this legislation in the US would not entirely upend the current rules and regulations. That's exactly the issue - you can't say "well currently things are X, and introducing Y won't change anything" when Y does, in fact, change everything. A positive example of this was EMTALA in 1986 when the US gvt told hospitals "if you want to bill Medicare you have to provide ER treatment to everyone." That was a radical change to the way in which medical care had been provided in the US up to that point. Introducing any form of assisted suicide introduces many complex legal issues just around liability from a practice standpoint - to say nothing of the complexities of who determines what even constitutes legal authority for the decision itself.