HMO Docs Support Assisted Suicide

This is one medical endorsement that I welcome for assisted suicide because it reflects an important truth about the whole movement: It is about money and "treating" the most expensive patients with a lethal overdose. Talk about cost containment!

Lest you doubt it, the California Association of Physicians Groups, self-described as "the nation's largest professional association representing physician groups practicing in the managed care model," that is HMOs, have endorsed assisted suicide. How fitting. And how ironic that left-leaning Assemblywoman Patty Berg and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine would embrace an endorsement by an HMO group--when the Left usually hates HMOs.

Here is the press release about this political faux pas from the California Disability Alliance.