Mushrooming health subsidies are creating sick incentives for government to push suicide

Eight states and Washington, DC , permit medically assisted death for their own residents.

Nearly 45,000 Canadians have died using doctor-assisted suicide since Canada legalized it in 2016 .

The logic of assisted suicide makes financial sense for the Netherlands , Canada and other countries with socialized health care.

The government is in charge of more of our care than we may realize.

Sally C. Pipes , president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute , is the author of “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.” Twitter: @sallypipes..