Despite the fact that he’s a promiscuous homosexual disease spreader (gonorreah and monkey pox), he’s written a good piece about how dysfunctional and bureaucratic the health system has gotten in the US. And, what a bummer the relatively mild disease) (as compared to smallpox) is. An epidemic of either would make COVID look like the proverbial walk in the park.
One can argue about the modern dysfunctional health care facilities but one of the reasons why they are “dysfunctional” is that they were founded in times when most people were rather rational and at least pretended to be mostly modest, moral and reasonably chaste. The health care systems founded in eras of generally public moral rationality were not equipped nor did anyone forsee the need to build in the resources needed to take on sudden epidemics of diseases caused by the immoral acts of irrational sensuality based people who want a cure now and immediately!