None of those are US Government problems. The government doesn’t own ventilator factories. The government doesn’t expand hospital bed capacities. The Government doesn’t produce medical personnel.
Government policies can only impede those efforts. New ones especially will do so.
On the other hand, if the government suspended it’s meddling, capitalism would utterly astonish you at the speed it would fill those needs.
BUT if you wanted to produce ventilators, build and expand hospitals, train new medical personnel and were ready to start today... an avalanche of Government and HHS and other regulatory BS would bury you.
The answer is not the that government should “do something”.
We sure as hell are funding the care here. All of those at this point of crisis are government programs. Just as geting enough steel-making capacity and munitions factories going during WWII.
What should have happened was presidential order to suspend loads of regulations back in January—and to fund the expedited production of the supplies we need.
Yeah, they got 3M going with a factory for masks a couple of weeks ago, but all these supply chains wouldn’t have moved to China if the government hadn’t given favorable terms to manufacturing in China for our market.
The feds broke it and they should have got it fixed here in time of crisis.
The government is doing something alright, an overnight $8.3 billion porkronovirus boondoggle.