This is how it is when your country nationalizes health care. All of the most private, intimate details of your personal care decisions become a political football, played out in the press and in government hearings.
We don’t do all that great on palliative care. Our “drug warriors” hsve doctors scared silly to prescribe effective levels of pain relief, even in terminal patients suffering excruciating pain. God forbid someone die a possible “addict” rather than a less painful emd of life.