There is a lot of administrative bureaucracy that forces doctors to push pens. Recently a doctor prescribed me some medicine, and I went to the pharmacy to pic

There is a lot of administrative bureaucracy that forces doctors to push pens. Recently a doctor prescribed me some medicine, and I went to the pharmacy to pick it up. Apparently the insurance balked at paying for it (the pharmacist told me this was common), so the pharmacy sent some additional paperwork to the doctor to fill out. I know multiple doctors (in the US) that are so fed up with "the system" that they refuse to deal with it, operate their own self-pay practices, and refuse to deal with insurance companies in any capacity. Even the kindest, most talented, and most dedicated doctors are representatives of a system that seems pretty well rotten to me.