regulations forced my doctor of thirty years into selling his business. Talking to him it pushed a lot of single and dual doctor offices into selling. Electronic records keeping was the bogeyman that pushed a few over the edge, between the software costs and the manpower to get all the documents into that now required form they just didn't have the money.

Top it off with his worst payers were not the insurance companies but government based.

Government regulation, from deciding what insurance must cover for all people to not being able to shop across state lines was very much responsible for the rapid increase in healthcare. It didn't help much when we got sold out by Washington under the guise of Affordable Care to the drug, insurance, and hospital, companies. ACA was payoff for campaign contributions, that is why no one read the damn bill.