>...If my mole had been cancerous, a doctor could have demanded any price to remove it, and I would have paid it, because the alternative is death. Is there on

>...If my mole had been cancerous, a doctor could have demanded any price to remove it, and I would have paid it, because the alternative is death. Is there only one Doctor where you live? >...The ability to shop around is typically at the crux of free-market health care arguments but shopping around isn't possible in life-or-death situations like health care. Most of health care provided is not an emergency life or death situation. You have never had been given healthcare where your life wasn't in immediate danger? That is quite unusual. >...Literally every other country in the world understands this, and that's why health care is rightly socialized in every single other country on earth except America. Every other country? That is clearly false - you might want to read the article for one counter-example. (There are very few countries where all health care is socialized. Most are a mix of private and public options like the US.)