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With respect, I keep inferring that, because it seems to be what you keep implying.

Where? How? Because I make a distinction between political and public health issues?

What's your position on adding statins -- which some advocates propose adding to drinking water to combat cholesterol?

I don't know squat about statins. Nor do I consider chloresterol to necessarily be a public health menace. Should I?

You mentioned a "distinction without a difference", in a previous post. You need to explain how you distinguish between a "political issue"; and a "public health issue" where governments use their coercive powers of regulation, to put a medication into the drinking water. In what way can that not be a political issue?

Mental health (suicide prevention), and cholesterol control are certainly important issues, for many in the public. You haven't defined what "public health" means to you -- but, (again by inference) it seems to mean "health issues, which I believe warrant use of government regulatory powers to force medication on the public".