re: #4 Kreuzueber Halbmond

End of life - beginning of death - we don’t need government bureaucrats to want government bureaucrats OR private-sector insurance executives putting pressure on the doctors who talk to us about it.

There, fixed that.

While the monopolistic character of government-funded ANYTHING justifies treating it with particular skepticism, free-market competition does not inevitably or instantly prevent/correct undesirable practices — such as a doctor subtly nudging a patient to choose the cup of hemlock, because the doctor feels pressure from those concerned with the bottom-line.