Do people believe that there? I can assure you the government has no roll in our health care decisions, and what the doctor wants the patient can always get.
Oh yeah, it was a major propaganda position back in the 00s and it’s part of how obamacare got that way.
Yep. The two main arguments were that the ACA would create death panels and that people would no longer have a choice in their healthcare providers. But both of those were, and still are, the status quo with private, for profit health insurance providers being involved in care.