[joe_the_user]

That someone is arguing this gives you an idea of the power of dogma.

Medical services are the place where in-person attention is pretty much generally needed, where consumers tend to be bad judges of their needs and so-forth. It's pretty much the point where the "disruption" paradigm breaks down.

Unfortunately, this paradigm seems to be the hammer that everyone applies to every problem today. Every scheme to make medical more efficient today, not just those of "crypto-anarchists", seems to hinge on giving consumer more choice when medical care is exactly where consumers are incompetent to make choices alone.