Maximising profit is an extremely cost effective way to serve the market, because a business only profits from serving it's customers most effectively. Except when the state interferes with force.
In an unregulated health market, if you were about to die and needed immediate treatment, and a doctor saved you, the closest doctor and hospital would own you for the rest of your life. The power of a natural monopoly. You are not in a position to haggle over the price.
Lots of assumptions here.
Why do I have to go to the local doctor?
Because you aren't walking or talking or thinking, you are about to die. The doctor has to decide for you, and only has seconds to do so.
Why is healthcare expensive? we already discussed the fact that the state drives up the costs in the first place.
Yep, it is the hopeless mix of private and public health system with insurance companies and lawyers taking cuts. It's an industry. A public health system proves to be much more efficient, as far as you can prove something using statistics from other countries.
Why can't charities/family help out? Without paying tribute to our government overlords, we will have plenty of wealth left over to help the needy.
They will have to help out as well when the bill for keeping that heart and lung machine running for tree days come on the table. You chose the extra expensive model by moving your left eyelid, or so the doctor tells you.
Why is the doctor a total asshole who will demand life servitude for saving someones life?
Because with no regulations he can.
Before the government stepped in with it's regulation and licences and general market distortions, doctors did pro-bono work all the time. Now it's too much of a liability.
Yeah. With no regulations and licences and "general market distortions", you have no idea if he is actually educated as a doctor. He may have been a homeless who just mugged a doctor for his bag and coat, and got lucky because he happened to be around the office doing pro-bono work as a gynecologist.
