Wow, this brings home what a huge crisis this is for US health care system. It's not just the huge costs or huge administrative overhead as such. It's that the

Wow, this brings home what a huge crisis this is for US health care system. It's not just the huge costs or huge administrative overhead as such. It's that the entire system is built as "we design a giant filter-rationing-marketizing system to dole out services and you pay for both the service and the rationing process". This stuff can't work for the Coronavirus at all. Testing needs to free and fast, not even "free eventually but there's bureaucracy first". Who knows when or if this paradigm will be abandoned but if it isn't, suffering will be tremendous. But either way, the risks discrediting the filter-ration paradigm. If X can be provided for free to everyone, the question of why can't you will loom that much larger.