It's not so much a healthcare system failure, as a lack of respect for science and public health instructions in the general population. In other countries where the people follow public health instructions, they have had MUCH better results. Here there are a lot of people, including the President, who see ignoring those instructions as a political right that must be exercised.

In some of those other countries, violating quarantine means prison, hefty fines, or corporal punishment. Here it gets you a snappy red cap and club membership.