Is Canada profiteering from euthanasia and transplants — like the CCP?

This article about Canada's euthanized organ donors follows from "Are MAiD organ donors really dead when their organs are harvested? Waiting five minutes after the heart stops may not be long enough."

The series aims to provide readers with a clearer understanding of the various facets of a troubling issue that has grown over the years, as explained in the first article,  White Coat euthanasia: A license to kill in the name of care?."

While there have been numerous articles and videos published on the topic over the years, they have been spread out over a long period of time and they cover many different related aspects. This makes it difficult to see the forest — the enormity of what is actually transpiring —  for the trees — the many different changes and aspects related to MAiD and organ donation. This series, to a large extent, attempts to reveal the broad picture of the rapidly expanding practice of legal killing.

As they follow the series, readers are asked to consider:

• How prevalent are euthanasia and assisted suicide?
• Can/should morality and ethics change with the times?
• Is MAiD okay because that's what people want and nothing needs to change?
• Does it need to be stopped and how can that happen?

In this post, we explore the financial motivation that may underlie Canada's big push for euthanasia, which has been likened to CCP organ harvesting.

Is Canada like the CCP?

Olivia Murray, writing for American Thinker, averred that Canada's organ harvesting program MAiD (medical assistance in dying) is similar to China's organ harvesting program.

The Chinese Communist Party's disregard for human life is metastasizing thanks to Trudeau's dictatorship.  (Is that really all that surprising, given the Canadian crybaby's adoration for big government subjugation?)  I was kind of under the impression that the world over had taken a hard-line stance (at least verbally) against organ-harvesting?  Apparently not.

Life News journalist Mary Zwicker penned a sobering report, published three days back, shedding light on an alarming trend: the Canadian government is euthanizing its citizens, then procuring and selling their organs...and the numbers will shock you.  From Zwicker:

Transplant Quebec's annual statistical review for 2022 has revealed that organ donations in the province have tripled in the last five years, with a shocking number originating from those killed via Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). ...

[T]he agency received "a record number" 854 referrals for organ donations in 2022, with a whopping 15 percent of which were sourced from victims of MAiD — a figure that represents a 130 percent increase when compared to five years ago.

In the tweet below, James Lindsay, an anti-Communist activist, also states his belief that Canada's MAiD organ harvesting program is akin to the CCP's:

CCP-style organ harvesting. This is what "equity" looks like.

And Right to Life News quoted Dr. Nicole Scheidl relating organ donation from MAiD victims to the CCP's organ harvesting of people who were executed.

Executive director of Ottawa-based Physicians for Life, Nicole Scheidl, reacting to this data, said “I was shocked … I also think that it really undermines the organ donation framework in this country.”

She said organ donation after euthanasia reminded her of the suspected organ harvesting after execution in China.

Who profits from MAiD?

Doctors

How much do Canadian doctors get paid for killing all those people under MAiD?

After the law changed in 2016, doctors in British Columbia (BC) began killing people without charge, expecting that once the BC government finalized the fees, they would get paid. Canada has socialized medicine so patients don't directly pay to be killed; the government pays the doctors (with taxpayer money) for the euthanasia.

In August 2017, not long after the law came into effect, LifeSite News' Lianne Laurence penned an article entitled, "‘It doesn’t pay enough’: Doctors want more money for killing people in Canada," in which she referenced two articles about doctors' dissatisfaction with the fees.

Complaints from doctors that euthanasia doesn’t pay enough have been in the media lately, with the Toronto Globe and Mail publishing an article July 4 entitled “Canadian doctors turn away from assisted dying over fees,” and MacLean’s Magazine followed up with: “Should doctors be paid a premium for assisting deaths?” on July 10.

“It’s the euthanasia lobby getting their people in the media to print articles saying that one of the problems to access to ‘MAID’ [Medical Assistance in Dying] is the fact that it doesn’t pay enough,” says Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

“Now they’re pressuring to have it pay more.”

Killing has to be "worth it" for doctors to continue.

Jesse Pewarchuk, a Vancouver Island doctor who has reportedly killed 20 people, quit doing so because it doesn’t pay enough, the Globe reported.

[Courtenay, British Columbia's Dr. Tanja] Daws, . . .  “It struck me that I can’t keep doing this,” she told MacLean’s. “It’s not for lack of wanting, but it’s financial suicide.”

Dying with Dignity's CEO claimed that low doctor fees violate patients' rights to have themselves killed.

But paying doctors low fees to kill their patients is a “barrier to access” to euthanasia, Shanaaz Gokool, CEO of Dying with Dignity, told MacLean’s.

“[N]ow that [policy-makers] know, it’s their responsibility to make changes ASAP. If they don’t, then they are intentionally obstructing access with that decisions [sic],” she added.

At the time that they urged the British Columbia government to pay doctors more to provide consultations to, and then kill, patients, Laurence wrote, these were the rates:

BC pays up to $240 for the first assessment visit for euthanasia ($40 for 15 minutes up to 90 minutes) and a maximum of $200 for the second visit, which is capped at 75 minutes, the Globe reported.

The BC government pays a doctor $313.15 for killing the patient, which includes a base fee of $200 and $113.15 for a home visit.

By contrast, euthanasia doctors can bill a maximum of “$621.60 in Alberta, $600 in New Brunswick, $499.80 in Quebec, $480 in Manitoba and $465.60 in Saskatchewan,” reported the Globe.

Nova Scotia caps its payout at $292.20 to doctors for each patient they kill. Newfoundland and Ontario do not yet have an official fee schedule, according to MacLean’s.

‍⇒⇒Note that according to the BC government, only 165 minutes, a little over two and a half hours, are all that's needed to decide whether or not someone should be killed.

Money matters

Financial considerations aren't unique to medical killing, either. Maclean's McIntyre, as Laurence reported, pointed out that money makes a difference in the medical care a patient receives. According to a 2015 Toronto University study, “financial incentives changed doctors attitudes around cesarean sections.”

In the Netherlands, she continued, doctors receive about $2,200 for each person they kill and [ironically] receive the following day off with pay to deal with the emotional toll of being a murderer.

⫸⫸ Does $2,200 per killing, with a paid day off afterward, assuage a doctor's conscience?

Quebec doctors earned $6,000,000 for euthanasia in 2022

Canadian doctors must feel that they're getting compensated adequately today since they are still killing patients for pay. While each province decides how much they will pay those in the white coats for medical murder, the amount allocated by Quebec, one of the provinces with the most murders, puts a shocking price on death.

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request "looking for the total fees paid to these providers, for their MAID services (i.e. for MAID consults, counseling, injecting the drugs, etc.)" revealed that doctors billed Quebec province nearly $6 million for their euthanasia services in 2022, as reported by Neil Campbell for Vision Times.

According to a Google Translated version of the document provided by the blog [Quebec is a French-speaking province], the two largest fee items paid were $2,333,692 for consultations and examinations in response to a request for MAID, an item paid on a 15 minute basis, and $983,021 for “patient request finalized.”

‍Vision Times quoted Run for Life (the maker of the FOI request) who said that all those funds could have been put to proper use helping people instead of killing them.

In response to the Freedom of Information request, Run With Life asked, “Imagine instead of killing these people, we spent that money on helping them with their poverty, their mental illness, their pain, and their suffering? Isn’t that what a caring society is supposed to do?”‍

The Canadian government

Lifesite News's Laurence reported that euthanasia advocates believe killing patients could be funded with the money the government would have otherwise paid out for their future health care, noting the millions of dollars MAiD saves the government.[1]

Moreover, with the government saving on healthcare costs by killing people, it should have funds available to pay doctors more to do it, argue euthanasia advocates.

. . . the Canadian Medical Association has calculated that Canada could save “at least $34.7 million and up to $138.8 million a year” by killing patients.

Canadian veteran Kelsi Sheren also understood that murdering speople rather than keeping them alive saves the Canadian government millions of dollars, as she explained to Jordan Peterson in the video below.

In 2021, they had a gross reduction in healthcare of $19.2 million. When they did MAiD, they . . . saved another $22 million. By the end of it all in that year the healthcare system, just from doing MAiD instead of actually giving people palliative of care, [saved] $86.9 million.

Transplant surgeons and Big Pharma

Discover Magazine noted that organ transplants are very lucrative for surgeons and Big Pharma, as author Dick Teresi wrote.

Today the transplant industry is a $20 billion per year business. It spends more than a billion dollars a year on immunosuppressive drugs alone, which prevent the recipient’s immune system from rejecting the transplanted organ. Transplant surgeons are near the top of the M.D. food chain, earning on average around $400,000 per year. They and their staffs [sic] often fly to organ harvests on private jets. Finder’s fees, in the form of “administrative costs,” are often paid to hospitals.

Everyone but the donors

Teresi further explains that everyone involved will benefit, that is, everyone but the donors and their families who won't be compensated.

The only people who do not get a share of the transplant wealth are the most essential: the donors and their families. By law, they are the only ones who cannot be compensated. Joseph Murray, the surgeon who performed the first solid-organ transplant, maintains that donors must not be paid, in order to maintain the integrity of the field. (Emphases added.)‍

Can there be integrity in a field that has spawned an industry that rushes to declare people dead?[2]

The Organ Transplant Industry

Just like commodities and manufactured goods, organs for transplant boasts a multi-million dollar market, One for which Technology Key Research provides reports.

The global Organ Transplantation market size was valued at USD 12668.87 million in 2022 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 9.29% during the forecast period, reaching USD 21585.91 million by 2028.

The “Organ Transplantation Market” report offers a comprehensive analysis, blending extensive quantitative data with thorough qualitative insights. It covers a broad spectrum from a macro overview of the overall market size, industry chain, and market dynamics to detailed micro-analysis of segment markets by type (Heart, Kidney, Others), application (Hospitals, Transplant Centers, Others), and region (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa).

Dead people are good for business

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Patients will always be needed

These "Key Questions" presuppose a continued and growing need for replacement organs by people whose own organs do not last a lifetime.

The push for euthanasia in Canada raises some real concerns, especially when you consider its connection to organ donations. Instead of focusing on helping people live healthier lives, there’s a troubling trend of using euthanasia to boost organ availability — and the profits that come with it.

Many medications are known to cause kidney and liver damage, including weight loss drugs, while others cause heart failure and pulmonary disorders — often without patients even realizing it. Shockingly, euthanasia is provided as a “solution” for the damage that may have been caused by these risky drugs.

Should we be helping people recover and live healthy lives by addressing the root causes of their illnesses, instead of justifying ending lives for organ donations and financial gain? True compassion is generally understood to support life, not cutting it short. But alas, there's no money in preventive health and therapies that heal patients.

Check back for our next article in the series, where The Gold Report explores the opposition of some doctors to MAiD, despite their colleagues public pride in helping people end their lives.

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Our previous articles in the series covered:

1. The legislative change that exempts Canada's doctors from being charged with homicide, allowing them to kill patients whose deaths are declared imminent, and the subsequent change that allows doctors to kill patients with disabilities even though they could live for many more years.
2. The significant number of individuals who have been killed under Canada's MAiD laws — equivalent to the population of a small city.
3. The troubling perception of compassion that renders euthanasia acceptable to some. The Gold Report highlighted instances where disabled people who wanted to live were instead offered euthanasia, including a paralyzed veteran who had, requested a wheelchair ramp but was offered MAiD instead, and that many patients declared terminally ill by doctors often outlive their expected prognosis, frequently due to misdiagnosis.
4. The cocktail of drugs used to kill patients, which anesthesiologist Dr. Joel Zivot noted are the same as those used in U.S. lethal injections. Autopsies reviewed by Dr. Zivot indicated that condemned inmates did not experience a "peaceful" death; instead, the drugs caused them to drown. He posits that euthanasia victims may similarly suffer, with their distress going unnoticed due to the paralytics used.
5. The medical establishment's perspective that having oneself killed is just another treatment option that must be offered to patients, often without first exploring other therapies. This mindset may contribute to Canada's higher rates of MAiD organ donors compared to other countries with euthanasia laws.
6. The reliability of brain death as a criterion for determining true death. Organs cannot be harvested from someone who is deceased; there are accounts of individuals regaining consciousness while being prepared for organ extraction or even in the middle of the process.
7. The brief five-minute wait required to declare MAiD organ donors dead after cardiac death. Research has documented brain activity in individuals whose hearts have stopped, and some who were resuscitated through CPR have recounted experiences from the time they appeared lifeless

Other related articles:

• ‍Could a misdiagnosis lead to euthanasia? ‍
• Is weight loss with Ozempic and Wegovy worth the price?‍
• Does a diagnosis explain what's wrong with you?‍
• Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) - a cruel way to die but not to the onlooker
• Disabled in Canada? Doctors may pressure you to end your life

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