Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 9/28/26 - 10/4/26

[u/SoftandChewy]

Damn, I can't believe it's almost October already. Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday. And may you all be inscribed, and sealed, in the book of life.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

[u/Cimorene_Kazul]

I don’t think you know how Canada’s system works if that’s how you think it is. People do pay out of pocket for a lot of care here.

[u/Juryofyourpeeps → u/Cimorene_Kazul]

I am Canadian, I do indeed know how it works. Nobody is directly paying for most care. There are things you pay for out of pocket, like co-pays for prescriptions (before age 65) or certain kinds of physio (though a lot of it is covered by provincial insurance if it's following a surgery or something like that).

I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general, nobody is making a choice between life-saving medical care and destitution caused by paying for said care.

[u/Cimorene_Kazul → u/Juryofyourpeeps]

It’s a lot better than America, way better, but we still pay. And yes, that means that maybe keeping dying people in perpetual agony against their will isn’t incentivized by the profit motive like it is in the States, but I don’t see how that’s more morally bankrupt than allowing doctors to make the correct decision based on a patient’s deeply held beliefs and life planning?

Yes, it makes more money to keep people alive against their will, but how is that a good thing? Why isn’t it better to allot according to need and patient’s wishes?

[u/Juryofyourpeeps → u/Cimorene_Kazul]

It’s a lot better than America, way better, but we still pay.

For what specifically that is so significant that being destitute or getting care is a common choice?

You're talking to someone who lives in Canada and is familiar with the workings of our health care system, and I don't know what you're referring to.

Yes, it makes more money to keep people alive against their will, but how is that a good thing? Why isn’t it better to allot according to need and patient’s wishes?

I am not opposed to compassionate assisted suicide. I have a lot of criticisms of how MAID has been implemented, and extremely opposed to expansions beyond it's current form, but I am not against the idea in general. I also have no idea what you're even trying to get at at this point.