"In 1973, Nixon did a personal favor for his friend and campaign financier, Edgar Kaiser, then president and chairman of Kaiser-Permanente. Nixon signed into law, the Health Maintenance Organisation Act of 1973, in which medical insurance agencies, hospitals, clinics and even doctors, could begin functioning as for-profit business entities instead of the service organisations they were intended to be."
https://sott.net/en351109

Ask yourself: Why don't we see docs taking loud & public stand to fix this idiocy? 
Answer: They really like it the way it is now.