It’s exactly what they wanted, but it’s about control more than anything else.
Stampede Docs out of private practice and into working for hospitals or other big healthco orgs. Which dictate treatment options, acting as agents for the Federal government.
Classic fascist economics: the state exercises control while the means of delivery is ostensibly private.
Not one of the docs I know who are 'retiring' is going to work for a hospital. They are quitting medicine. Some are in their early 50's. Those in their 40's are very unhappy but just got through paying off school loans and are putting their kids through school. Once the kids are on their own those docs are quitting.