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by Samuel_Michon
4582 days ago
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> I'd argue that its far right and right Amein, that is my view as well. I was born in the Netherlands but have lived in the US for 8 years and I still spend 3 months out of the year there. My opinion is that US voters don’t really have choices. It’s right or far right. There are some fringe parties (like various socialist and green parties) but there’s no chance they’ll gain any power. In both the democratic party and the GOP there are conservatives and progressives, but it seems to me that the conservatives always win out. As a member of Left Turn and the League of Young Voters, I volunteer to register people to vote. I know it’s not enough, but I don’t know what else to do. |
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1) they can choose pain meds overdose and/or euthanasia (active/passive)
2) they can choose to go without medical care (when above a certain age, the rule is that if, on average, a treatment does not result in at minimum a 5% increase in the length of useful life per EUR 20k spent per year, that treatment will not be given).
An example I'm intimately familiar with. Someone who required dialysis since he was 38 due to late-onset diabetes which wasn't discovered for too long (ie. partially destroyed his kidneys at a -relatively- young age). The national health insurance would stop covering his treatments at the age of 62 (note that this age is going down due to medical expenses rising above inflation). So the choice was pain meds overdose, or self-poisoning.
To say that this person voluntarily chose euthanasia is a flat-out lie. He would have chosen to prolong his life, if there were no consequences.
The deciding factor for the timing of his death was the financial needs of the state.
Note that the royal family was actually scared of the government they led when it came to a prince who has slipped into a coma. They openly chose to have him treated in the UK (he had an accident in Austria skiing), to prevent the euthanasia choice being made for them. ( http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-would-have-stopped-t... )
I am scared to think how many, percentage-wise, elderly Dutchmen actually are forced to chose between euthanasia and the cessation of most medical aid.
And, frankly, knowing that that person paid decades for health insurance that promised health care until end of life, only to have the government change the deal under him ... I find it reprehensible.
But it never seems to gather much attention. It seems Holland just wants to get rid of it's elderly.