As a “perople of Arkansas”, many of them aren’t that bad, but just vote R for lower taxes. Their behavior can still be problematic, but they aren’t intending to hurt anyone, even people they don’t understand.

Now, some of them of monstrous religious zealots (often well-armed), and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone, but I think the Danish system is just an well set up to deal with them and the American system.

Can they buy Arkansas instead? We need a state government that respects the bodily autonomy of women, and I’d appreciate operating under Danish national law rather than a federal government run by Trump.

You don’t recover from diabetes by receiving insulin, so it doesn’t fit into the “recovery virtually guaranteed” part of that category.

But, yes, there are a number of chronic diseases with no cures but excellent treatments, and those treatments should be available free to the patient but are often targets for Capital to rent-seek from patients as much as “the market will bear”. And, when market failure means a painful death, the market will bear quite a bit.

When the treatment is clear and the recovery virtually guaranteed, the support is freely given.

When the problems aren’t visible, the treatment plan is more improvisation than schedule, and recovery is hard to quantify. Support is harder to give and rarer to receive.

Mental problems are more likely to fall into the later bucket, but there are a swath of physical ailments from the metabolic and hormonal to the structural that also get lumped in.

I’m also a little sad about it. I still think it is a “net positive”, and I try not let let “the perfect be the enemy of the good”. Yes, in a “perfect” world, he reformed, went into remission, and started working to remediate all the suffering and damage he had caused.

Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There’s no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.