It is bad. And that is experience, not brainwashing.
Too many people have lost the art of self-care. They expect to rely on the system for everything, when you shouldn’t be showing up at a medicare facility unless you have something that is beyond your ability to care for yourself.
Then, because of how your insurance is structured, as long as somebody says hello, they can send a bill. This results in medicine costing more than it should.
Fixing this is probably going to require getting insurance out of the healthcare options at the GP level, but you can pay cash to the GP without involving the insurance company, just like your granddaddy used to do things when it came to his doctor.