That's precisely what I and most of my colleagues fear. You've hit the nail on the head. That is exactly what will happen, and the problem is that we will not know which of those people would have recovered. They will all go in the bucket of MAID assessors saying that this would have never gotten better. We will assume that they never would have recovered, and more than half of them would have.
I've actually heard from patients who have said that they are fearful for the future and are potentially not wanting to seek help when they get depressed again. Why? Because they're concerned that somebody is going to say to them, “Do you want MAID instead?”
We talk about the model practice standard. Remarkably, in that, it says that, for any adult who could be eligible—unless you already know, somehow, that MAID would not be in their value system or their goals of care—you need to advise them MAID could be an option. That actually means any adult with a disability, because MAID could be an option for any adult with a disability.
I don't know of any other country that has basically said something so permissive. Most say that the physician cannot be the one to bring it up, because that can be seen as suggesting it from the white lab coat.