# This is how you lower healthcare costs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-how-you-lower-healthcare-costs/764731>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-how-you-lower-healthcare-costs/764731 "2016-09-01T23:15:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-how-you-lower-healthcare-costs/764731/1 "2016-09-01T23:15:33Z")

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> **[New Study Shows Netherlands Euthanizing People With Depression, Eating...](https://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/31/new-study-shows-netherlands-euthanizing-people-with-depression-eating-disorders-and-autism/)**
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> The Netherlands considers itself oh, so rational. Its laws around controversial social issues involve the concept of harm reduction. Harm reduction? Once the country accepted killing as an answer to suffering, it was sure to include the mentally ill....

Seems like if you’re in the Netherlands you might not want to claim you’re depressed.

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**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-how-you-lower-healthcare-costs/764731/2 "2016-09-01T23:34:44Z")

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> [@drewder](#):
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> [New Study Shows Netherlands Euthanizing People With Depression, Eating Disorders and Autism - LifeNews.com](http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/31/new-study-shows-netherlands-euthanizing-people-with-depression-eating-disorders-and-autism/)
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> Seems like if you’re in the Netherlands you might not want to claim you’re depressed.

Where in the article does it say that people are euthanized involuntarily because they are depressed?