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You could ask the same questions about grocery shopping or buying a PC.

RandomLensman 2y ago
A mis-assessment there might be far less consequential and those also do not require a medical diagnosis before making a decision where to go.
- whatshisface 2y ago
  I've never needed a medical diagnosis to decide between calling my GP and going to an urgent care. It's just a bit surreal to hear everyone else say my ordinary survival skills are impossible and more than could be asked of anybody!
  - RandomLensman 2y ago
    You said you have a hospital selected you trust (by whatever your metric is). Hospitals tend not be all equal for all things, so trust should probably be differential - how do you assess yourself as a patient then to decide on where to go? And if you do not differentiate the trust any further than to a single hospital regardless of what the issue is: why is that sufficient? I think it is fine to have some preferences for a hospital, but not sure how much benefit that confers outside of some narrow situations.
    - whatshisface 2y ago
      Sinply replace hospital with any other service, take your own answers and then translate it back. In economic terms I researched medical facilities until the expected marginal benefit of the information fell below the marginal cost. There are a lot of reasons to reform the US healthcare system but you can't argue that consumer choice is too complex to be realized.
      - RandomLensman 2y ago
        I don't know the US system well enough to say much about it.
unethical_ban 2y ago
Just to be clear: You're asserting that the average citizen * has the same capacity to research an unknown number of medical procedures and the doctors performing them as they do researching onion prices or CPU specs * faces a similar scale of consequences when failing to properly analyze medical procedures as they do when they fail to properly price-compare onions or PC services * has the same freedom of choice to "purchase their preference" in an emergency, life-threatening situation as they have when shopping for PCs or groceries
- whatshisface 2y ago
  Dietary and metabolic problems are an epidemic that outweights malpractice in terms of quality and quantity of life by more than two orders of magnitude - so yes, I am saying people face "shopping problems" of life or death magnitude every day.

A mis-assessment there might be far less consequential and those also do not require a medical diagnosis before making a decision where to go.

whatshisface 2y ago
I've never needed a medical diagnosis to decide between calling my GP and going to an urgent care. It's just a bit surreal to hear everyone else say my ordinary survival skills are impossible and more than could be asked of anybody!
- RandomLensman 2y ago
  You said you have a hospital selected you trust (by whatever your metric is). Hospitals tend not be all equal for all things, so trust should probably be differential - how do you assess yourself as a patient then to decide on where to go? And if you do not differentiate the trust any further than to a single hospital regardless of what the issue is: why is that sufficient? I think it is fine to have some preferences for a hospital, but not sure how much benefit that confers outside of some narrow situations.
  - whatshisface 2y ago
    Sinply replace hospital with any other service, take your own answers and then translate it back. In economic terms I researched medical facilities until the expected marginal benefit of the information fell below the marginal cost. There are a lot of reasons to reform the US healthcare system but you can't argue that consumer choice is too complex to be realized.
    - RandomLensman 2y ago
      I don't know the US system well enough to say much about it.

unethical_ban 2y ago

Just to be clear: You're asserting that the average citizen * has the same capacity to research an unknown number of medical procedures and the doctors performing them as they do researching onion prices or CPU specs * faces a similar scale of consequences when failing to properly analyze medical procedures as they do when they fail to properly price-compare onions or PC services * has the same freedom of choice to "purchase their preference" in an emergency, life-threatening situation as they have when shopping for PCs or groceries

whatshisface 2y ago
Dietary and metabolic problems are an epidemic that outweights malpractice in terms of quality and quantity of life by more than two orders of magnitude - so yes, I am saying people face "shopping problems" of life or death magnitude every day.