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You are still free to take a taxi. If the medical practitioner says "we are getting you an ambulance" you can refuse and make your own way to the hospital. That is entirely legal.

However, the medical practitioner themselves cannot tell you to take an Uber to the hospital. Which is sensible.

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In Canada, home of the often proposed single payer solution to the problems in the US, ambulance services are generally not covered and must be paid directly. You even pay id one gets called for you and you refuse assistance.

I gp is rarely going to be in a situation where they need to call an ambulance for a patient; generally it's going to be the organization (like a nursing home) or management/administrator to avoid potential liability

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