Is This an Example of Obama's Nazi Health Care Program in Action?

May 28, 2009 (LPAC)—Don't let the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, or White House budget adviser Peter Orszag, hear about this one.

The Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas is under investigation for killing a Romanian man, Andrei Haber, who was afflicted with nothing more than depression. Under the Swiss euthanasia law, someone can be killed only if they suffer from a terminal illness.

"This case presents a particular fact: that the person didn't suffer from a serious or incurable disease, provoking severe pain. His motives were essentially psychological," said Swiss Judge Philippe Barboni.

A former worker at one of Dignitas' suicide clinics told the London Daily Mail that she had come to see the suicide clinic not as the compassionate place for ending lives, but as a money-making killing machine taking advantage of the disabled and terminally ill. She said its founder and operator, Ludwig Minelli, would rush people through the death process by giving them deadly drugs within hours after they arrived from the airport.

"This is the biggest step anyone will ever take. They should at least be allowed to stay overnight, to think about what they are doing. But Minelli would have none of it," she told the Daily Mail. "He once said to me that if he had his way, he would have vending machines where people could buy barbiturates to end their lives as easily as if they were buying a soft drink or a bar of chocolate."