Legacy USA healthcare, in contrast, didn’t guide health reporters with relevant data the way meteorology guides weather reporters.

Personal health consultants were limited to government-licensed doctors and nurses, typically from cartelized schools [12]. Health consultations were focused not on boosting wellness but on mitigating illnesses.

Preventive use of antivirals to safeguard wellness was unheard-of. Drugs and tests had to be initially approved by the FDA for sale [13]. The FDA demanded many particularly-costly development tests [14], and delayed approvals by years, which deprived people of treatments. Usage information had to be approved by the FDA. All new drugs and many old-standby drugs had to be prescribed and dispensed by government-licensed providers following government-supervised procedures.

Telemedicine was unheard-of.

Home monitoring of blood oxygen was unheard-of. Oxygen supplementation for acute illnesses was done only in hospitals.

Hospitals needed government permits to open [15] and government approvals to stay open.

The IRS incentivized employers to fund health-payment / insurance companies. HHS controlled analogously-structured Medicare and Medicaid programs for elderly people and for the poorest people, who together suffered from substantial amounts of illnesses.

Compared to best care, legacy USA healthcare limited affordability, innovation-driven quality, and availability.

Obamacare retained all the same old incentives to not save up reserves and to not innovate to care for people with costly illnesses [16], and used even-more force to socialize the same-old ever-inflating costs onto relatively-healthier people.

Obamacare pushed consolidation of consultants and hospitals into bigger, more-bureaucratic organizations [17]. These big producers were more-readily controlled by big governments and big government-crony health-payment / insurance companies.

The whole lot of them—the big governments, the big government-crony health-payment / insurance companies, the big government-crony pharma companies, and the bigger producers—were even-less responsive to customers. They performed even worse under the same-old politically-driven legacy incentives incentives to overprovide wasteful, costly touch-labor and tests to the relatively healthy, to underprovide efficient preventive care to those at risk, and to underprovide needed treatment to those with illnesses [18].

Given even-less control by customers, the whole lot of them were even-less innovative.

Compared to legacy USA healthcare, Obamacare further reduced affordability [19], innovation-driven quality [20], and availability.

COVIDcare advanced telemedicine.

But COVIDcare also put the existing controls to further use, on net producing substantial further limitations.

All state and many local legislatures delegated unconstitutional, unrepublican emergency powers [21], and all executives who were given the chance unconstitutionally accepted these powers.

Some executives used every means they could to empty hospital beds by coercing unsuitable nursing homes to admit infectious patients [22].

Government people in the FDA, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, Medicare and Medicaid, the VA, and state governments launched various brazen attacks on the use of the generic antivirals hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin against the new virus, and on the use of new fast in-home tests.

Government-crony researchers, without explaining why, misapplied the generic antivirals by using them only in the most-disadvantageous stages of the disease, and by using hydroxychloroquine only without the required supplemental zinc [9].

Government propagandists assailed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as poisoning risks, and separately assailed ivermectin as horse dewormer, implying that ivermectin isn’t also safe for humans and isn’t also an antiviral [23].

Many state boards threatened doctors who might prescribe these generic antivirals for the new virus, and threatened pharmacists who might fill prescriptions of these for COVID-19. No state boards threatened hospital or pharmacy-chain administrators for practicing medicine without a license when the administrators overrode treating clinicians who included hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin in their treatment of patients.

The FDA didn’t study or approve these new uses for the existing drugs, and approved very-few new drugs. Other than monoclonal antibodies, all these new drugs had serious, frequent side effects. All these new drugs also were notably high-priced [24].

The FDA, without adequately explaining why, attacked the supplement NAC [25]. NAC had begun to be recognized as reducing the oxidative stress that tears up the inner walls of patients’ blood vessels, which creates debris that produces microclotting and clotting throughout patients’ circulatory systems, for example extensively in the blood vessels in patients’ lungs.

The big government-crony clinics and hospitals were strongly disincentivized from using effective existing drugs and supplements, and never developed effective treatment protocols [26].

Providers long were only allowed to use tests that took days to provide results and that routinely indicated false positives. Providers long were told to withhold the test data that quantified patients’ viral loads, which were what determined both patients’ infectiousness [27] and patients’ risk of serious disease.

Congresspeople removed nearly-all liability for vaccines [28]. Next the national government’s Operation Warp Speed funded development of genetic vaccines. All Operation Warp Speed crony producers proposed, and the government supervisors greenlit, vaccines that relied on introducing into patients’ bodies the spike proteins that cause COVID-19 disease and associated deaths, chronic illnesses, and acute illnesses. Unprecedented, grossly-unacceptable numbers of vaccine-associated deaths and serious side injuries were painstakingly reported. But no state prosecutors brought criminal cases against the national-government supervisors or the vaccine producers.

HHS bought and controlled the distribution of many fast tests [29], monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines. After the monoclonal antibodies proved lifesaving, HHS and some state governments reacted as quickly as they could by instituting racial criteria to deny treatment to many whites.

Compared to Obamacare, COVIDcare further limited affordability, innovation-driven quality, and availability.