But prospect theory, a field of behavioral economics, tells us that people who have no good options tend to be risk-seeking, because the psychological cost of a bad outcome diminishes the fear of a worse outcome.
They refuse to answer this question because they know full well that the answer is that there is absolutely no reason to believe that the outcome can be better.
Such an outcome seems unlikely: no government would stand by and let people be denied health treatment because a primary-care trust got its sums wrong.