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.
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.
The rising price of insulin and other common pharmaceuticals would suggest it is not freely given.
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.