My GP is from Canada. He once had a chance to attend a conference with the Minister of Health present discussing Canada’s incoming switch to single-payer healthcare. This was obviously decades ago. He got to meet the guy in a bar later during the conference, and he said to the Minister, “You know a lot of this is not going to work.” And he reports that the Minister responded that they knew it wouldn’t work, but they were going to do it anyway.
My doc decided right then that he had to get the hell out of Canada, because of the coming system. He said that out of amazing fortune, he happened to get a call very soon out of the blue with a job opportunity in Houston, TX, where he’s been ever since. He was the youngest chief-of-staff ever at his hospital in Canada, and he had to take the lowest position possible when he came to U.S., but he was willing to take his family and do that to get the hell away from the oncoming Canadian system.
Everything is micromanaged and price controlled. This limits a doctor's billings who then, like a businessman, must cover the salary of the receptionist, office charges, ect. The billing process is a huge pain in the ass. Because of his need to maximize billings, a doctor ends up over booking patients.