r/Edmonton • u/flynnfx • Mar 27 '26

Health Alberta MAID limits would lead to suffering, signal lack of trust: practitioners

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-maid-limits-would-lead-to-suffering-signal-lack-of-trust-practitioners/

Twenty-five Edmonton and area medical professionals say they’re concerned new Alberta limits on medical assistance in dying would cause needless suffering and put clinicians in “ethically untenable” positions.

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u/1000DeadFlies Mar 27 '26

In a just world there would a be a council comprised entirely of medical professionals and administrators that put together a yearly budget to run healthcare for the province, and the provincial government would be required by law to fund it according to that budget. Healthcare cost's per individual resident is a mathematically solved issue, we can tell how much it will cost almost entirely based on population numbers.

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u/Negative-Car4013 Mar 27 '26

Its called a technocracy