Hospitals / insurance can do these things because of state legislature that's written or influences by doctors. Check who's sitting on your local Medical Board.

Hospitals / insurance can do these things because of state legislature that's written or influences by doctors. Check who's sitting on your local Medical Board. Doctors "only" collect <20% of all medical expenses as salaries, but they enable the rest because they control (directly or indirectly) the top of the funnel through scope of practice, medical education, generics designation, and other laws. If you cut down the root of the problem by removing MDs from decision making on supply side legislation, the rest of the malignant vegetation (insurance, hospital admins, pharmas, PBMs, etc) will starve consequently.