why are many american obsessed over maintainign the illusion of choice in healthcare?

[Aegon]

There is no such things as choice when it comes to healthcare unless you  actually want to die. You get sick, heart attack, run over by a truck etc a persons only priority is to get healthcare. You are not buying a car, fridge, furniture or a movie ticket.
Having health insurance that doesn't cover everything means you're choices are whatever the insurance company decides since their ability to make a profit depends on denying coverage and avoiding payouts

Food, water, clothing, shelter, safety and health are the main priority in any circumstances. Freedom and liberty are only a option you can afford to care about when the more important needs are met. If you're too busy taking care of yourself and your loved ones then your not gonna have the luxury to care for anything else

I just don't get the nonsensical opposition to universal healthcare, is it indoctrination? is it stupidity? or a general lack of even the most basic education?

The government stepping in and taking away your privately funded health care plan and replacing it with its own, government plan sounds like a nightmare for most Americans. We're too libertarian for something like that. That's why it polls so poorly among anyone who isn't a staunch progressive.

There are also plenty of legitimate hurdles between where we are now and single-payer that aren't just Republican scare tactics.