fwiw I don’t think most of this problem is due to insurance issues, though I agree that the US healthcare system is very weird and falls short in a lot of ways.
This also isn’t specific to mental health: one might retort to donors to AMF that they should be funding improvements in (say) health treatment in general or malaria treatment in particular.
I suspect that if there were a really strong ‘pull’ for goods/services to be provided, then we would already have ‘solved’ world poverty, which makes me think distribution is weakly related to innovation.
World poverty has been decreasing a lot since 1990 – some good charts here & here.
M-Pesa and the broad penetration of smartphones are examples of innovations that were quickly distributed. The path from innovation to distribution is probably harder for services.
fwiw I don’t think most of this problem is due to insurance issues, though I agree that the US healthcare system is very weird and falls short in a lot of ways.
I don’t think this analogy holds up: we’ve eradicated malaria in many developed countries, but we haven’t figured out mental health to the same degree (e.g. 1 in 5 Americans have a mental illness).
World poverty has been decreasing a lot since 1990 – some good charts here & here.
M-Pesa and the broad penetration of smartphones are examples of innovations that were quickly distributed. The path from innovation to distribution is probably harder for services.