That's the part that makes the US system insane.
In countries with a public health care system, the goal of the patients and the doctors is the same. Everybody's goal is to prevent diseases and sickness, and to treat it when it isn't prevented. The administrators just estimate how much funding is needed to achieve that goal.
In the US system, the patients are trying to prevent and treat their sicknesses and diseases. The administrators are trying to find ways to avoid paying for any treatments, and the doctors make more money if they can find a way to bill more things.
And, what's especially insane is that healthcare really isn't a normal market like other things. If you're buying a truck, you can shop around, haggle with salespeople, etc. If you're hit by a truck, you're not going to be comparison-shopping emergency rooms.
But, by the nature of the US, it still has to involve them. Because of the system, you can't get shots into people's arms without involving private hospitals, private insurance companies, etc. Which, during the pandemic resulted in some insurance companies still trying to charge co-pays for vaccinations, or billing people who received them. Maybe it was just paperwork mix-ups but it happened. And, since many people are used to the private system, they assumed that they would get charged or couldn't get vaccinated because they lacked insurance, so they didn't get vaccinated.
Imagine if a city had all kinds of private fire departments but it had a Center for Major Fires that could issue orders if a fire was declared to be "major". Until that point, firefighters could refuse to put out a fire at a business that hadn't subscribed to their firefighting services. So, they could sit there and watch a building burn down, only using their hoses on the stray embers that flew into houses nearby which had subscribed. Then, one day, there's a fire at an abandoned warehouse (no fire coverage, naturally) and it starts spreading to nearby buildings, some of which are also abandoned. The Center for Major Fires examines the situation and declares that this is a Major Fire, and that all the fire companies need to help put it out, regardless of whether it affects their pre-paid customers. But, unfortunately communicating that with the various fire companies is hard because the fire has already started to spread. Some companies are willing to do what's required, but first they want to ensure that their paid-up customers are safe, then they'll get to the abandoned warehouses... Other fire companies are hard to contact because they're already too busy fighting part of this Major Fire, so any hope of a coordinated response is slim.
There are just some jobs that should be done by government. Firefighting and healthcare are both in that category.