АНУ-ын Агаарын цэргийн хүчний ахмад дайчин Кристин Логан эмчилгээний хүртээмж муу байсан гэж үзэн, Канад дахь амьдралын төгсгөлийн үеийн эмнэлгийн тусламжийн хөтөлбөрийг шүүмжилжээ.
Канадын иргэн Донован Жеймс болон түүний эхнэр, өндгөвчний хорт хавдрын дөрөвдүгээр шатанд оношлогдсон Логан нар улсын эрүүл мэндийн үйлчилгээний санхүүгийн давуу талыг харгалзан Канад руу нүүсэн гэжээ. Гэвч 2023 оны есдүгээр сард оношоо мэдсэний дараа хавдрын эмчид үзүүлэх цаг авахаас өмнө эмнэлгийн тусламжтайгаар амьдралаа дуусгах боломжийн талаар мэдээлэл өгсөн хэмээн Логан ярьсан байна. Канадын Эрүүл мэндийн яам MAID хөтөлбөрийг шаардлага хангасан хүмүүст эмнэлгийн мэргэжилтний тусламжтайгаар амьдралаа дуусгах боломж олгодог эрүүл мэндийн үйлчилгээ гэж тодорхойлдог.
Логан 2023 оны есдүгээр сард эхний эмчилгээгээ хийлгэхээр АНУ руу явж, 2024 оны гуравдугаар сард гэдэсний түгжрэл үүссэний дараа дахин хил давжээ. Тэрээр дөрөвдүгээр сард Канад руу буцсан ч хавдар 2024 оны арванхоёрдугаар сард дахин илэрсэн байна. Жеймсийн хэлснээр, Канадын эмч нар мэс засал хийх төлөвлөгөөгүй гэж мэдэгдэж, Ванкувер руу тээвэрлэх нисдэг тэрэг олдоогүй бөгөөд боломжтой бол тус улсаас гарахыг нэг эмч зөвлөжээ.
Хос 2025 оны нэгдүгээр сард Канадын төрөөс гарч, тавдугаар сард АНУ-д албан ёсоор суурьшсан байна. Жеймжийн ярьснаар, Логаны биеийн байдал хурдан муудсаны улмаас түүнийг эмнэлгийн аппаратаас салгаж, автомашинаар Ванкувер арлыг туулан, гатлага онгоцоор явж, Сиэтлд яаралтай мэс засал хийлгэхээр хүргэсэн бөгөөд мэс засалч нь дахин нэг өдөр хүлээсэн бол сепсис болж нас барах байсныг хэлжээ. Логан Канадын эрүүл мэндийн тогтолцоонд олон удаа саадтай тулгарснаа ярьсан бол хос MAID хөтөлбөрийн хамрах хүрээ хэт тэлж байгаад санаа зовниж буйгаа илэрхийлжээ.
Фрейзерийн хүрээлэнгийн 2025 оны тайланд ерөнхий эмчээс илгээснээс эмэгтэйчүүдийн эмчид үзүүлэх хүртэлх медиан хүлээлгийн хугацаа 25 долоо хоног, мэргэжлийн эмчийн үзлэгээс эмчилгээ эхлэх хүртэл 15.6 долоо хоног гэж дурдсан байна. Бритиш Колумби муж эмэгтэйчүүдийн хавдрын тусламж үйлчилгээг өргөжүүлэхээ мэдэгдсэн бөгөөд Канадын Эрүүл мэндийн яам Fox News Digital-ийн тайлбар хүссэн хүсэлтэд шуурхай хариу өгөөгүй байна.
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Kristin Logan and Donovan James say they moved to Canada with their sights set on the financial and medical benefits of publicly funded health care — but say they encountered a “dystopian” system that offered medically assisted death before cancer treatment, prompting them to return to the United States.
“Canada has been slowly sliding into an entire dystopian situation. The way they’ve expanded the MAID system is frightening. It was never supposed to be used this way, to be offered so easily and so upfront when a person gets sick. I think it’s evil,” James told Fox News Digital.
“It was the most heartbreaking experience, to basically be set up to die. And if I wanted to live, I had to take my life into my own hands and leave the country. It’s pretty dystopian to think about now, to get information about ways that I can end my life and what the end of my life looks like before I’d even gotten an oncology appointment,” Logan continued.
Logan said she was first diagnosed in September 2023, leaving Canada later that month to get initial treatment. She later had a bowel obstruction in March 2024.
She had to leave the country again, and then returned in April 2024 before the cancer returned in December 2024.
The couple decided to leave Canada in January 2025 and officially moved back to the United States in May of that year.
MAID — Canada’s medical assistance in dying program — is described by Health Canada as “a health service that allows eligible people to receive help from a medical practitioner in ending their life.”
According to Kristin and Donovan, MAID was the best initial solution Canada offered to her upon her diagnosis.
The Atlantic has reported that MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada, “surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer,” with some raising concerns the program has become too expansive.
“They should be focusing on treating people and helping people live, but instead they’ve expanded the system as a kind offer because they pretty much assume you’re going to die,” he continued.
James, a Canadian citizen living in the United States with a green card, is the husband of Kristin Logan, a US Air Force veteran who has stage four ovarian cancer.
They moved to Canada to get ahead of potential financial difficulty in the case of a future medical crisis to avoid “ever going bankrupt” — a hypothetical that crashed into reality following Kristin’s three separate travels back to America in a desperate fight for her life due to high wait times and lack of resources available in the Canadian health care system.
Logan had multiple emergencies and hospital trips during her time in Canada when a second bowel obstruction shifted her and her family’s fight or flight into overdrive to find a plan to save her life.
James said Canadian medical providers told the family there were “no plan[s] to operate on her,” that a hospital helicopter was unavailable for a transfer to Vancouver and that a doctor advised Logan to “leave the country” if she had the means.
The family ultimately traveled to the United States for treatment.
“Kristin was deteriorating really fast… Ultimately, we had to pull the plug and take her off the machines at the hospital and risk everything to put her in the car, drive all the way down Vancouver Island, sail across the ocean straight on a ferry, continue down over the border back into Seattle to get her immediate emergency surgery,” James said.
“The surgeon said had she waited another day, she would have gone septic and died in Canada,” he continued.
“[It] was devastating and shocking. I was only 43 years old when I was given this diagnosis… It made me very angry that I had been chasing this disease for nine months and had been stymied at just about every turn by the health care system in Canada,” Logan continued.
“Americans don’t get enough Canadian news to know just how much Canadian health care has declined over the last couple [of] decades. It’s always had this problem, but now it’s just so much more worse and dystopian with this M.A.I.D. program that they’ve introduced – and it was never supposed to be used this way,” James said.
British Columbia has announced an expansion of services for women with gynecological cancer.
According to the Fraser Institute’s 2025 report, the reported median wait time for gynecology was 25 weeks from referral by a general practitioner to consultation with a specialist, followed by 15.6 weeks from specialist consultation to treatment.
Health Canada, the lead federal department for the MAID program in Canada, did not immediately respond to Fox Digital’s request for comment.
