This is Ed Morrissey of Hotair.com for Town Hall. We warned repeatedly when Canada began to adopt

assisted suicide as part of its government-run health care. Socialized medicine, combined with

assisted suicide, sets up foreseeable economic incentives that reward disposal of patients rather than

chronic care. But even we couldn't have dreamed that Canada would grow so

desperate to reduce costs that they would condone assisted suicide assessments in fast food parking

lots. Yet that's exactly what happened in Ontario, where a doctor diagnosed a chronic bowel

problem and emotional issues outside a Tim Horton's coffee shop and took the patient to be euthanized.

Why? The doctor provides their system what it needs, fewer patients.

That's the real standard of care when single-payer systems face the choice of chronic care

are pushing patients to end their lives. This is what they call humane treatment in Canada.

If progressives have their way here, the U.S. will be next.

I'm Ed Morrissey.