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This isn't due to "heavy regulation", it's due to the free market.

Insurance companies have an incentive to make medical care as awful and inefficient as possible. There's a tug-of-war here: doctors want to provide the highest quality care as fast as possible; insurance companies want to provide the least amount of care as rarely as possible.

Well... they're the ones paying.

These doctors are struggling to deal with "regulations" - they're struggling to deal with insurance. The sheer administrative overhead of medical insurance is staggering. You can go ask doctors, any of them will tell you.