Groovy. Sovietized medical system.
If they really wanted lower prices, its simple: train more docs.
Medical school admissions were held artificially low in the 1970-80s because the AMA had salary level targets cooked into their admissions recommendations.
When they started coming up scarce on docs in the 90s, they began importing third rate docs from Pakistan and India (English speaking).
There were tens of thousands of people in the US. who could have done better had there been a US medical school billet for them.
And the same is true now.
“If they really wanted lower prices, its simple: train more docs.”
Sorry. Not true, although I understand your reasoning. Consider this. For most of the procedures that I do the hospital bills and receives about 20-30 times the fee that I am allowed (and that I often won’t ever see). Physician fees are not the dominant driving force in the cost of medical care. The government is targeting physicians because they want physicians to do less, and thus decrease utilization of the system. Even if you drop physician salaries by 75%, if physicians utilize hospital services, testing, etc. at the same rates as now - and you add more physicians - the cost of medical care will not go down, and may in fact go up.