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The doctor chooses. In Canada, doctors can accept whoever they want and they'll only accept patients with good 'fit'. Everybody else is stuck going to a walk in clinic or the ER. How does it work in US? Do Doctors charge different rates for a checkup? I thought it was fairly opaque between the doctor and the insurance company?

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> The doctor chooses.

Then there'll be a non-monetary "currency" of favors, who you know, black market, strings, etc. Such systems inevitably appear in any system of "free" scarce goods.

I'm a Canadian physician, and this is not a correct statement. Nowhere in Canada are you allowed to cherry-pick patients.

"Canadians pick their own doctors, just like Americans do. And not only that: since it all pays the same, poor Canadians have exactly the same access to the country’s top specialists that rich ones do."

https://ourfuture.org/20080204/mythbusting-canadian-health-c...

When the good doctors are in demand, and the not-so-good ones are not, how is the allocation done?

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