Admittedly, I do not have much experience with going to hospitals here or being an old person. But my Dutch colleagues find this to be laughably (like, literally) misinformed.
What I can take (from Wikipedia) is that the Netherlands is 16th in life expectancy (79.8) and the U.S. is 36th (78.3), the Netherlands has the 27th lowest infant mortality in the world (4.73 deaths per 1000 births) and the U.S. has 46th (6.26), and the Netherlands has an obesity rate of 12% whereas the U.S. has a rate of 34%. So perhaps U.S. politicians might look to the Netherlands for manners to improve health care in the U.S. rather than create bleak pictures of involuntary euthanasia.
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