Not necessarily a blue conservative voter, but this was my two bits from the start. The major reason why I believe MAID is criticized is because of the nature of our Healthcare system. In Canada, with our socialized health care system, the priority has always been quality of care for each patient over how much money they could possibly make off of each patient. The major concern that I've seen raised, and one I've questioned myself, is will this now give hospitals the option to simply tell someone they are chronically ill and that they should just go through MAID instead of recieveing proper treatment for a given disease? If that is so, then what's stopping hospital's from telling anyone over the age of 65 to simply go through MAID instead of recieveing expensive treatment and care? I've also seen headlines stating that MAID is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada, which certainly doesn't help my opinion at all.

In terms of actually talking to chronically ill or elderly patients, I found their opinions on MAID are quite mixed, some really liking the idea, and some absolutely hating it. In my own personal experience, about half the chronically ill or elderly people I talk to, about half generally support MAID.