[delacoert]

The emergency declaration is said to lift certain (federal) requirements:

• both in treating patients and moving equipment to where it's most needed.
• allowing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements" to help health care facilities enact emergency plans
• contained in Medicare, Medicaid and state Children's Health Insurance programs, and the HIPAA privacy rule.

[eyedigress]

If it is a matter of expediency, which is normally slowed by government intervention, I have no problem with it.