"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." That's debatable, especially in a country where our positions on government services can be heavily influenced by which group we identify with... or do not.
Jonathan Metzl, both a physician and a sociologist, traveled around the middle of the country exploring ways in which politics defeated efforts to keep people healthier and safer. Several states passed laws that can be demonstrated to have reduced public health.
Metzl provides a summary in Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland. The interview from 2019 gets a re-airing here.