If there was a pill to mend broken bones and stitch up wounds they would push that as well.

Um, that used to be a promise that they showed in futuristic shit like The Jetsons (and Harry Potter had it, too, in a magical medicine form.)

Just like all the old dystopia movies/novels promised us that dystopia would begin more or less at 8 billion humans, complete with "genetic engineering to make bigger tomatoes to feed all those starving African chillun" ...