Medical care is an area in which crucial decisions — life and death decisions — must be made; yet making those decisions intelligently requires a vast amount of specialized knowledge; and often those decisions must also be made under conditions in which the patient is incapacitated, under severe stress, or needs action immediately, with no time for discussion, let alone comparison shopping.
I watch mom tangle with her insurer (who dumped her after years of faithful premium payments when she got expensive cancer) and Medical (who accepted her, but would have stolen her house as "payment" if a friend hadn't hooked her up with a savvy lawyer) at a time when she was almost literally at death's door. Even if it were possible to make "smart decisions" and "shop around" for the "best healthcare deal" at that point, it's still nothing a desperately ill person should have to worry about. They've got enough on their plate.
I refer to the sort of right wing a-holes that habitually make these kinds of suggestions as 'sociopaths' because I've seen their vision in action. It should be anathema to anyone with a functioning moral compass and a smidgen of empathy for their fellow human beings.
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