the rationing board in the UK is named “NICE”...talk about Orwellian language.
And they decide if you live or die: if you don’t meet the criteria, you die.
One notorious case was the Lockerbie bomber, in a Scottish prison, who was denied chemotherapy (and if you read between the lines it was because his age meant he didn’t meet the criteria). Ghadaffy had a fit and got him sent home to Libya, and guess what: The guy lived for two years on treatment.
It caused a bit of a scandal when he didn’t die on time, and lots of critics claimed he wasn’t at death’s door and shouldn’t have been released.
The fact he was terminal because they refused to treat him was carefully ignored in the press...
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t looked it up for myself. Whoever came up with that either never read C. S. Lewis, or they did and they’re very naughty.