I should add that as a nurse in a hospital, she often heard doctors discussing what the state’s medicaid program would pay before deciding on what was ‘wrong’. In one case, they decided to replace both knees on a woman with knee pain. The woman was 4’11” tall and weighed 300 lbs...but Medicaid would pay for knees. What she needed was a diet! With her weight, the artificial knees were doomed before they ever were inserted.
Same problem with psychiatry. They pay the same for drugs as they do talk therapy both of which show equivalent outcomes. You can see 4-8 clients who take drugs to every one talk therapy patient. Government intervention distorts markets. I once told that to a top US Government HS teacher (liberal) who was incensed and vehemently denied it.
I asked him for an example where government intervention didn’t distort a market and he was silent. Sadly, he’s still a liberal.