Podiatrist offers "in house physical therapy"

There is a significant subgroup of PT's who flat out will refuse to work in a POPTS clinic, and I highly doubt you could find PT's who refuse to work in PT owned outpatient ortho clinics. Therefore there is already less PT's in the pro POPTS pool to chose from. So, on average, a PT who works in a POPTS clinic will not be as good as a non POPTS PT.

This doesn't make logical sense.
You're saying the PT's who work in POPTS are on average the same or higher quality as PT's who work in other outpatient ortho clinics? I don't follow how this makes logical sense since as I've said there is a subgroup of PT's who refuse to work in POPTS, thus there is less to chose from. Would you agree that the more informed a PT is the more likely he/she is to refuse to work in POPTS clinic? And if a PT is more informed about that, they would be more likely to be informed of evidence based practice and interventions for certain problems. Thus yielding a better PT. To clarify, you would refuse to work in a POPTS would you not? Can you cite me a single PT you know that is on par with you, or any of the well known PT's in our profession who are pro POPTS?

Further, to me it goes far beyond the ethical aspect of it. It isn't fair that a PT has to work infinately harder to set up a private PT practice (and advertise as you say) to stay afloat, while a physician can do it way easier and just hire a pro POPTS PT and refer everyone there. If PT's had direct access with reimbursement from insurance it wouldn't be an issue because there would be no PT's for these physician's to hire and the PT's that you say aren't very good could focus on patient care and outcomes versus their business ala MBA style. BUT, in the current system POPTS should not be legal, because it's too easy for a physician to abuse their referral and money making power, and to continue owning/controlling something that they have no business doing.

As far as I can tell, there are no laws that make it any harder for a PT to open a PT owned practice than for an MD to open a PT clinic.

Laws are not the only issue, by the way there ARE laws that restrict a PT's ability to open and make business as a PT (lack of direct access in some states). And imagine how fast Target would go out of business if they needed a referral from Walmart for "customers." But there's no "laws" preventing Target from going into business.

Regulations and policies make it far more difficult for a PT to open up a clinic vs an MD. If I could open up a PT clinic with direct access reimbursable by all insurance I would have a small rinky dink clinic already.

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Podiatrist offers "in house physical therapy"