Care to explain? From where I'm sitting, it looks like private equity firms and hospital networks have created local monopolies/cartels in healthcare by buying

Care to explain? From where I'm sitting, it looks like private equity firms and hospital networks have created local monopolies/cartels in healthcare by buying up lots of little doctor's offices, and running the same playbooks around revenue maximization. I guess it's hard to defect and run a smaller office, because of the demands of dealing with insurance, as well as doctor licensure, but afaik the AMA isn't a governmental agency so much as a professional organization interested in keeping doctor salaries elevated by restricting the entry of new doctors into the field, and they seem to be one of the major problems.