By deliberately preventing or de-prioritising access, perhaps not. But at some point if you have more grandmothers needing hip replacements than they are healt

By deliberately preventing or de-prioritising access, perhaps not. But at some point if you have more grandmothers needing hip replacements than they are health care workers able to perform the procedure and provide post-operative care, something's gotta give. Unless of course we find much cheaper/easier ways of or substitutes to performing such replacements, which isn't so unlikely (nanotech to rebuild existing weakened bones?).