Its always the caste lobbying for regulations "for the good of all" that break countries apart. My country's (Argentina) largest political party lives on by heavy corporativism, otherwise they would have been booted a long time ago.
Here in Argentina the nurses discourage you to seek it, then they blame the anesthesiologist is not available. We have had 2 with cesarian and one friend was in so much pain that she had to ask for a cesarian too.
> We are seeing the collapse of the global economy due to high government debt. Politicians don't have incentives to fix the situation since they will lose support if they try to do anything
Well, that might not be necessarily the case, watch Milei slashing a lot of bloat in Argentina and still remaining popular.