'Universal health care' -- the Republicans argument--B.S. or legit?

So the Repubs are complaining about universal health care whereby gov't bureaucrats will make health decisions. I belonged to a well known HMO. I asked for a family doctor. They gave me about five names and told me which one would be easy to get to from my house. I said, I'd rather they give me the name of a GOOD doctor. They said, 'Mmmm.That makes sense. as though they never thought of it before, and said, "OK, this doctor (they named him) is really good!. I asked them about emergencies. They gave me an 800 number and said, if it's an emergency be sure to call this number. Well, as an experiment, I called it. It just rang. No one ever answered. I checked to make sure it was the right number. It was. Tried again. Nobody answered. Then I got an appt with the 'good' doctor. I told him I had a sore throat. He sat back, wrote me a prescription, and handed it to me. He didn't bother examining me. So, if this is 'private' health care, isn't the argument about some gov't bureaucrat making decisions just a way to try to protect 'private' health care. -- I won't bother with all the rejections people have gotten by HMO's regarding deadly diseases they ended up dying from, since I'm only going by personal experience.