Well, it's stretchinhg the term - but not as far as might be thought.

Terrorism can be defined as the use of methods that inspire terror, as a way of controlling the way people behave. The term appears to have originated primarily to describe the kind of things Governments sometimes get up to, directly and indirectly. (And it seems fairly clear that far more people have been killed by government backed terrorism than by other types of terrorist.)

Whether it's justifiable to use it when people have died as a result of Government inaction rather than Government action is an interestimg point. However the word has been used in that sense, for example in relation to famine deaths in the USSR.

As for "inspiring terror" - I think most people in Europe, and in many other parts of the world, would be terrified at the thought of having the kind of medical system which the USA has, in place of the various systems we have here.