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by unethical_ban 633 days 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
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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.