Fierce Healthcare February 9, 2024
The mental healthcare system in the U.S. is floundering as the mental health of its citizens gets worse, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That was true even before COVID-19, but the pandemic really brought the systemic problems to the fore.
Eric Reinhart, M.D., a political anthropologist of law, psychiatry and public health at Harvard University, said he thinks society can provide mental healthcare to the people who need it and do so in such a way that saves money in the long run.
In a country with not enough psychiatrists and psychologists to go around, Reinhart thinks that it might be time to de-professionalize how to go about providing mental healthcare, allowing laypeople to help plug...
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