The difference here is we're talking about a person's health, not their motor vehicle, so a different calculus is in play.

There is already an opaque bureaucracy that stands between me and my doctor. We do not have a free market in healthcare, so I cannot just choose another bureaucracy. I don't see how delegating this responsibility to a government agency can make it any worse for me.

This is not about education, it is about morality. So maybe they do need an education, but let that be in empathy and moralilty.

And why can't we have education AND universal healthcare? I want a government agnecy (the people) to control the morality of corporations and private equity. Like we have laws against fraud already that protects us from "unnecessary work done on their car to boost dealership profits".

Adding still, why would anyone be against universal healthcare? I mean it is the biggest insurance pool you can create and that immediately lowers costs.

In my current environment there's the opaque and not really shared dental "fee guide" by the regulatory body, the actual fees each dentist charges, and then the % of the guide that the insurance pays, so if the insurance company keeps pressure on the governing body they don't really care what any dentist actually charges you.

> I'm not sure why insurance companies aren't better at reining in these kind of abuses.

I think they are working on it. My dentist has cameras shaped roughly like a toothbrush. Before and after performing work, they record images of the affected area. He says insurance likes them to thoroughly document their work to help justify the cost.

Seems to me like capitalism is pretty good at incentivising this stuff.