Though here Mises is talking about milk, I believe that the same principle
applies to healthcare. There is much government control/intrusion
(socialism) without the benefits of the same.
Yes. Doctors and patients are all that is needed. The exceptions like super
expensive machines and tests and treatments are in many ways inhuman when
their full cost is tabulated.
My personal answer is to be personally responsible for my health, to not
buy disease-care insurance, to be prepared monetarily, physically and
psychologically for all potential challenges, including the final decision
to die.
I've seen a local doctor twice in the last fifteen or twenty years, snake
bite and pneumonia. In each case I paid cash for the visit and the
treatment. If my many attentions to my well-being somehow fail me and I
succumb to a disease that is very expensive to treat, I will execute my
exit plan. That plan includes updating my will and trust, saying unhurried
goodbyes to everyone, digging a big hole up at the edge of the woods by the
dogwood trees, leaving a note that satisfies any legal questions unanswered
by the previous activities, and then dying by my own hand, which method I
have previously described.
Seems to me you can't fully live until you are fully ready to die if
certain circumstances happen.