Illinois Governor JB Pritzker just helped torch what's left of America's healthcare system.
Conservatives nationwide are waking up to a terrifying reality.
Because the state that gave Barack Obama his start in politics just legalized this sick medical treatment and healthcare in America will never recover.
Pritzker Signs Bill Turning Doctors Into Death Dealers
Governor JB Pritzker signed the so-called Medical Aid in Dying Bill into law on Friday, making Illinois the latest state to give doctors permission to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.¹
The law doesn't take effect until September 12, 2026, supposedly to give healthcare providers and bureaucrats at the Illinois Department of Public Health time to "adopt new processes and protections."
That's bureaucrat-speak for teaching doctors how to kill patients while covering their tracks with paperwork.
Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh recently exposed the horrifying reality of what happens when governments decide death is healthcare.
Once you cross that line, there's no going back.
The Illinois law requires patients to have a terminal illness that will kill them within six months, be informed about all end-of-life options, demonstrate mental capacity to make medical decisions, and make written and oral requests for the lethal medication.
Those safeguards sound reassuring until you realize Canada has the exact same safeguards.
And Canada is now killing 16,499 people per year through euthanasia — accounting for 5.1% of all deaths in the country.²
Canada Shows Assisted Suicide Always Expands Beyond Terminal Illness
Canada legalized medical assistance in dying in 2016 for people whose death was "reasonably foreseeable."
By 2021, Canada expanded eligibility to include people with serious but non-fatal medical conditions whose death was NOT reasonably foreseeable.
Sound familiar?
That's exactly what the American Medical Association warned about when it said physician-assisted suicide would be "difficult or impossible to control" and pose "serious societal risks."³
Canada proved the AMA right.
Hospital staff now offer euthanasia unprompted to patients seeking mental healthcare for suicidal thoughts.⁴
Roger Foley, hospitalized with a degenerative brain disorder in Ontario, secretly recorded hospital workers repeatedly offering him euthanasia without him asking.⁵
Hospital staff told him continuing his care would cost "$1,500 a day."
That's not healthcare — that's cost accounting with a death penalty.
One woman with multiple chemical sensitivities applied for assisted suicide after seven years of failing to find accessible housing.⁶
A quadriplegic man died through Canada's program because he couldn't afford a proper mattress to prevent bedsores, not because his underlying condition was terminal.⁷
Disabled Canadians are being euthanized because they're poor, not because they're dying.
The Canadian Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report showing the old assisted suicide policies saved Canada $86.9 million per year, with expanded eligibility saving an additional $62 million annually.⁸
When death becomes cheaper than care, governments start seeing bodies as budget line items.
American Healthcare Already Pushes Financial Pressure on Patients
The terrifying reality is America's healthcare system already creates the same economic pressures driving Canadians to choose death.
One quarter of all Medicare spending goes to the last year of life.⁹
Death-inducing medications cost dramatically less than chemotherapy or even palliative care with its social workers, chaplains, and medical staff.
A study found physicians are more likely to provide assisted suicide when healthcare costs are high.¹⁰
Between 75% and 85% of UK palliative care physicians oppose physician-assisted suicide, with fewer than 5% willing to end lives, precisely because they understand the financial pressures.¹¹
Illinois Representative Charlie Meier said he voted against the bill because he's "pro-life from beginning to end" and worried about patients "who cannot make decisions for themselves and their ability to access the life-ending drugs."¹²
The Thomas More Society called the law a "dark and sorrowful day for Illinois" and warned that "when the state signals that some lives are no longer worth living, the most vulnerable pay the price."¹³
They're absolutely right.
The Hippocratic Oath physicians take for 2,500 years has included a commitment to "do no harm" and specifically prohibits giving deadly drugs to patients.¹⁴
Pritzker and Illinois Democrats just convinced doctors in the Land of Lincoln to violate that oath.
Once physicians become comfortable ending lives, the entire patient-doctor relationship changes forever.
Patients will wonder if their doctor is calculating whether their life is worth the cost of treatment.
The bill's supporters claim safeguards prevent abuse, but 60% of physicians admit they're not adequately trained to screen for depression in terminally ill patients — and 60% say doctors can't predict with certainty whether someone has six months to live.¹⁵
Those aren't safeguards — they're fig leaves covering state-sanctioned killing.
Illinois just declared some lives aren't worth living and handed doctors prescriptions to prove it.
¹ Lauren Brennecke St. Louis, "Illinois passes 'Medical Aid in Dying' bill, legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill," Belleville News-Democrat, December 12, 2025.
² "Euthanasia in Canada," Wikipedia, December 2025.
³ American Medical Association, "Physician-Assisted Suicide," AMA Code of Medical Ethics, 2025.
⁴ "Euthanasia in Canada," Wikipedia, December 2025.
⁵ Associated Press, "Some health care workers in Canada grappling with patients requesting euthanasia," PBS News, October 16, 2024.
⁶ "Death by Poverty: Canada's Assisted Dying Program Exposes Fault Lines in Healthcare," Left Voice, February 9, 2023.
⁷ "The Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled," Jacobin, May 2024.
⁸ "Euthanasia in Canada," Wikipedia, December 2025.
⁹ "A Report of Physicians' Beliefs about Physician-Assisted Suicide: A National Study," PMC, 2010.
¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ "The debate rages on: physician-assisted suicide in an ethical light," PMC, 2024.
¹² Lauren Brennecke St. Louis, "Illinois passes 'Medical Aid in Dying' bill, legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill," Belleville News-Democrat, December 12, 2025.
¹³ Alexandra Koch, "Pritzker approves physician-assisted suicide law for terminally ill patients despite Catholic opposition," Fox News, December 12, 2025.
¹⁴ "Healthcare Ethics and Assisted Suicide: Legal and Moral Perspectives," AIHCP, October 17, 2024.
¹⁵ "A Report of Physicians' Beliefs about Physician-Assisted Suicide: A National Study," PMC, 2010.
