Reading this thread tonight & latching onto health care around the globe comments.

Anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses of which I can certainly vouch for after sharing psychiatric wards in my past.
Anxiety in the U.S is now affecting 40 million adults in the country, so reading Spaldys sound-bites over the the years I can certainly see his point of view across his 'health care' spectrums he often comments on.

As for 'my take' on global health care then the biggest problem with global healthcare today is profound inequity in access to quality care & essential services, driven by a combination of underfunding, workforce shortages & the increasing burden of chronic diseases.

A decade of underfunding has left many systems with weak infrastructure lacking capacity, which was certainly severely exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, imo.

I am now busy working part-time at Saint Nazaire Psychological centre providing psychological assessments for their collaborative process to evaluate personalised needs of 'young persons' mental health - so using my degree positively.

My biggest gripe of mental health care was/is the taking of more than 5 medications, aka polypharmacy.
The risk of harmful effects, drug interactions & hospitalisations increase when you take more medications - such risks that I was asked to put pen to paper over my experience of being a patient.

The gist of my personal 'report' I issued was Psychiatrists these days do almost exclusively medication management. They do have some training in providing psychotherapy but no insurance company will pay them the equivalent of 4x15 minute med checks to do an hour of therapy.
Of course my meds back then where creating me more problems alongside the pharmacists wheeling 'em out for me take like clock work.
Main problem in health facillities was & still is of experienced staff shortages of course.
But no matter what there are always plenty of pharmacists 'tho on duty & at hand 24/7 dishing out the tabs.
Says alot about the alleged support of a caring society today, imo, as in just take the meds, shut up, get discharged & keep taking the meds - until such decisions are challenged as in my past case.

The 'pandemic' demonstrated that no one is safe until everyone is safe, allegedly.
Reinforcing the urgent need for a shift toward sustainable & equitable health systems. 👍

We can only dream of such a day but in my case it was duty nurses who took the time to listen who got better results with patients day in & certainly not the vast array of medication forced upon one, for sure, imo.
We all know too who will be producing the medications of the future as well as China is really upping its production for global consumption.

Just saying