Comment by autoexec
9 hours ago
You mean we do let them do that unless you aren't able to pay them for it. If you're the minority that has very large sums of money your doctors can decide what treatment works best, but for everyone else their healthcare is dictated by some company whose only concern is increasing the amount of profit they rake in and they'd happily see you dead if it would improve their bottom line.
Your comment contains nothing of value. If you have a better way to allocate scarce resources please state it.
These resources are only scarce because of artificial scarcity.
This is especially true of patent medicines, where it's government enforced artificial scarcity.
In the US the allocation process itself is very expensive. Something like a third of the cost goes towards paying the administrative costs of navigating the byzantine insurance rules.