Why is an archive of DPTeview something that is more important than covering basic things like health care (especially mental) that we do terribly at?

Why can’t those who care about or undertake the effort? Thousands of nonprofit private historical societies exist.

interesting questions, but since there's no mutual exclusivity in real life, they aren't relevant to the real question, whether taxpayers believe there is value there

after all, congress could decide to cover this AND healthcare, they just don't want to do either