What is the proper value of human life? Does it change over time?
And is the budget-wise national-healthcare-system administrator qualified to make that determination for you?
And, if they do not want you to get better while waiting on line (most people do bet better for most things, except, broken legs, without treatment) or want you to die while waiting on line, why are the lines so long?
In any case, even in Singapore, with arguably the best-balanced system in the world, things are complicated, when people's lives are on the line...
https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/pape...