Sadly you can’t explain MAID’s corruption to most Americans. It’s blatantly just genocide of the poor, sadly if you try to explain that to an American they think you’re just listening to a Right Wing or Religious group “Lying about Canada’s healthcare system to scare us!”
Hell I’ve heard of Doctors straight up telling people they’re “Being selfish for not signing up for MAID!”, at this point it just feels like Canada doesn’t care and would rather just straight up kill the poor.
Something the American Right would salivate at the chance to do.
UBI is supposed to replace other need-based social programs such as disability, welfare programs, government housing, etc. The entire point is that the money from those programs, which collectively have quite a lot of waste, goes into UBI so everyone can participate in society on a more fair level.
There’s basically an entire industry dedicated to denying and minimizing payouts. With UBI, that entire industry becomes obsolete.
If UBI is done properly, it replaces those other social programs. The payouts are bigger and for more people, and the program administration costs are smaller.
Canada doesn’t even give people on disability enough to afford rent, let alone groceries, power bills, car insurance, etc.
Maybe start there. Help the disabled survive.
And God forbid you’re under 65 and disabled. Big load of “fuck you” from the government.
This is actually a big reason why there are so many opponents of the MAID law.
Too many people with disabilities are taking the euthanasia option simply because, they don’t have any way to live.
Which is simply despicable euthanasia has to be chosen, a sign of a broken system all the way around.
A friend of a family member just used MAID to get out of economic depression, so it’s absolutely a thing that happens.
Sadly you can’t explain MAID’s corruption to most Americans. It’s blatantly just genocide of the poor, sadly if you try to explain that to an American they think you’re just listening to a Right Wing or Religious group “Lying about Canada’s healthcare system to scare us!”
Hell I’ve heard of Doctors straight up telling people they’re “Being selfish for not signing up for MAID!”, at this point it just feels like Canada doesn’t care and would rather just straight up kill the poor.
Something the American Right would salivate at the chance to do.
Also read the reply to that comment for an example of the waste: https://lemmy.world/comment/4589897
There’s basically an entire industry dedicated to denying and minimizing payouts. With UBI, that entire industry becomes obsolete.
If UBI is done properly, it replaces those other social programs. The payouts are bigger and for more people, and the program administration costs are smaller.