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This focuses on the American problem, but the phrasing makes it sound like other places do better. What lessons or practices can we borrow from mental health ca
by abeppu 5y ago
This focuses on the American problem, but the phrasing makes it sound like other places do better. What lessons or practices can we borrow from mental health care in other countries? Short of building a large single-payer system (which I'm guessing the US will continue to refuse to do), how do other countries make care accessible and affordable?
- lazide 5y agoIt's complicated, unfortunately. :( Many places actively hide the problem in various ways, or ship folks off to 're-education camps' from which they may not come back, or classify it so it doesn't show up so much. America seems to be pretty unique in that it lets it all hang out, front and center, and has a bunch of social activists groups running around publicizing the issue without gov't or society telling them to sit down and shut up. It also has a much worse problem, also due to the socioeconomics of how the country exists (imo), and the legal structures and social disconnectedness of it's various urban and rural areas.