Not Dead Yet

takes on the editorial in the San Jose Mercury News the other day justifying medical killing of the sick, old, and disabled under the guise of "doctor-assisted suicide."

The editorial was rancid. I linked it the other day.

"Doctor-assisted suicide"

ain't all that humane upon closer examination:

One major reason for the diverse opposition is the deadly mix between assisted suicide and profit-driven managed health care. The cost of the lethal prescription generally used for assisted suicide is about $100. That's far cheaper than the cost of treatment for most prolonged illnesses. The incentive to save money by denying treatment already poses a significant danger. Again and again, HMOs and managed care bureaucrats have overruled doctors' treatment decisions, sometimes hastening patients' deaths. This danger would be far greater if assisted suicide were legal. Denying patients access to life-sustaining treatments while offering them the ``choice'' of assisted suicide would subtly but coercively steer them toward death. While the proponents of legalization argue that it would guarantee choice, assisted suicide would actually result in deaths due to a lack of choice.

It ain't a matter of "choice" but a matter of profit and getting rid of people deemed too expensive.