It depends on what part of healthcare you're thinking of, and what stage of the process you're at.
If you're wheeled into ER with a knife in your chest, you don't have a fungible probability of needing healthcare. You're going to be buying the knife-removal service whether it costs $100 or $100,000. You may be unconscious.
Obviously at the other extreme of choice is purely elective surgery, like breast enhancement. Lots of choice there - if you don't like one doctor's prices you can shop around or skip the surgery all together.
In between are situations where treatment is required but isn't urgent, or where the problem is minor and you can live with it/use off the shelf treatments, or where there are various types of surgery available. A lot of the time when there are multiple options with complicated trade-offs, that's exactly where it would be nice to have a friendly, trustworthy doctor who can give you some unbiased guidance.
How exactly to bring all the incentives into alignment and make them fair, over the entire continuum of choice and accepting that the people who need the healthcare aren't themselves experts - that's the hard part.
If you're wheeled into ER with a knife in your chest, you don't have a fungible probability of needing healthcare. You're going to be buying the knife-removal service whether it costs $100 or $100,000. You may be unconscious.
Obviously at the other extreme of choice is purely elective surgery, like breast enhancement. Lots of choice there - if you don't like one doctor's prices you can shop around or skip the surgery all together.
In between are situations where treatment is required but isn't urgent, or where the problem is minor and you can live with it/use off the shelf treatments, or where there are various types of surgery available. A lot of the time when there are multiple options with complicated trade-offs, that's exactly where it would be nice to have a friendly, trustworthy doctor who can give you some unbiased guidance.
How exactly to bring all the incentives into alignment and make them fair, over the entire continuum of choice and accepting that the people who need the healthcare aren't themselves experts - that's the hard part.