[wyager]

>It literally saves lives.

Authoritarianism does tend to save lives. That doesn't make it a good thing.

>If healthcare was left as a completely free market I dread to think how many people would die as a result of cut corners and rushed diagnoses.

As if that isn't the case in the most heavily bureaucratized healthcare systems today...

The free market doesn't result in "cut corners;" it results in optimal middle grounds between cost-saving and quality of service, tailored to individual market groups.