My wife’s doctor complained about similar situation, but blamed local health board not feds.
She still can’t get clarity on when test kits are admissible, so advises only if “showing symptoms” even if there’s a direct exposure possibility, as was the case with another of her patients who was at outbreak locale in Wash State.
The health care bureaucracies are going to have to figure this out, and it gives the President fuel to go after them for red tape barriers and turf-fighting.
They testing now is not limited by that protocol, per GA health. Up to doctor’s discretion. Not sure what is up with that.
The test distribution has had an ugly rollout.
I used to work in .gov, and the big shots would give an order.
Then the lawyers would get involved and explain all the issues that had to be addressed. (Some obscure regulations written in 1938 would have to be addressed...blah...blah...blah...)
Then they would have someone at HQ deal with the funding—what was authorized, what was in the account, etc etc etc
Then they would have to contract out for someone to do something physical (like delivery, for example) so the contracting office would have to figure out what contracts would apply, whether this task was in the contract, blah blah blah...
You get the idea.
.gov is a bureaucratic mess!
Maybe that is a blessing. He probably has a hard time understanding it not being a lifelong bureaucrat.
I can just imagine some of the stuff he is saying as he is finding out how this is being handled.
Then you are going to have an insurance problem...just when will it be free. It is one thing to say it is free..but another to get it for free.
You must jump through all of these hoops..XYZ to get it for free. For example, that nurse that was wearing the protective gear. I can just imagine insurance saying no we wont pay for it because CDC said no.
Unfortunately the buck stops with Trump.