quality time with patients started to go downhill (in the U.S.) in the 1990s when the Clinton Administration started to insert itself, micromanaging doctors under managed care. After the Clintons left, nothing changed under the Bush, Obama, Trump and the current administration. In fact, it's gotten progressively worse.
Just so you don't the impression that only Americans are getting the fuzzy end of the medical (fetish) lollipop, this micromanaging of medical care, making more stringent rules and regulations, even limiting the number of students allowed into medical school by country, is happening in most of the Western world.
Governments, or let's say bureaucracies everywhere in the world, have the (annoying) tendency to assume stricter and stricter control over any and every blessed thing they can. This doesn't happen only in the US.
Americans often identify problems or their annoyances by using sitting presidents as reference points. Usually the problems and annoyances we face come from other sources than a single guy playing the Big Cheese or a specific administration. These things usually happen because of other factors like economic imperatives in implementing cost savings or (foreign) competition forcing companies/economic entities to adopt more cost saving policies.
These are, unfortunately, world-wide problems. Not country, nor administration specific problems.
If anything, blame globalization and the internationalizing of just about everything.