The simple answer is Menopause Care is Health Care.
The more detailed answer is that my value system does not align with charging patients for care that I believe is health care. I have be involved in private care to assess it and know that there is no reason, in my opinion, that people should pay for care for midlife concerns.
Is menopause complex? At times yes.
However:
Access to midlife medical support should not be determined by financial status, which is why it belongs firmly within the public system. Menopause is a physiological transition affecting half the population, fundamentally altering cardiovascular, bone, and metabolic health. Standard medical concerns should never be treated as luxury services or wellness commodities.
Menopause management is undeniably intricate, requiring nuanced risk-benefit analyses for hormone therapy and lifestyle interventions. Complexity has never been a reason to privatize; cardiology, neurology, and diabetes management are highly complex, yet they remain foundational pillars of publicly funded medicine. If the medical system can structurally support complex chronic disease management, it can—and should—do the same for midlife health.