Health officials and bureaucrats at every level of American government have been on the receiving end of criticism for the United States’ slow vaccine rollout, but the failures of this process might seem familiar to keen observers.
President Joe Biden ran for the nation’s highest office on the promise that he’d be able to corral America’s allegedly haphazard pandemic response, one that critics said the Trump administration had bungled. However, one of the defining domestic accomplishments of the Obama-Biden administration — Obamacare — was rolled out in a similarly chaotic and frustrating way.