Experts: Healthcare system weakened by red tape, hospital consolidation

The theme, central throughout the hearing, was that regulations are having an adverse effect on the long-term health of providers, especially smaller providers.

“There’s so much of it, it’s actually sort of hard to know where to start, to be completely honest,” said Brian Miller, M.D., a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and practicing hospitalist at the John Hopkins School of Medicine. Miller has worked in various roles for the Federal Trade Commission, the CMS Innovation Center, the FDA and other agencies.

He said the decision to ban physicians from owning...