The US can barely get basic medical supplies to much of its population outside of a health crisis - not because of direct supply chain issues, but because the s

The US can barely get basic medical supplies to much of its population outside of a health crisis - not because of direct supply chain issues, but because the system is designed to put corporate profits over adequate service provision. And in the not so general case, over national security. Is manufacturing the real problem here? Or is it a symptom of decades of systemic mismanagement of opportunity by a culture that values short-sighted opportunism over strategy?