Absolutely not. I'm not aware of any other health condition in this country where politicians actually weigh in on whether it should be provided or not. For diabetes care, surgical care, hypertension care, politicians defer to the expert clinicians and researchers in these fields because they know that they are experts, that they want the best for their patients and that they're going to offer them treatments that are going to be beneficial. It's only in this extremely politicized rhetorical debate around harm reduction that politicians seem to think that they know better than the experts and the people who are caring for these patients day in and day out, who have a fiduciary responsibility to see that these people stay alive and do well, in both health and social outcomes.
Again, I've used the word—