4 reasons why the US is slow to adopt innovations like Vitamin D (Gulf States probably faster)
US
- 1) Fragmented payers
- 2) specialty-society turf
- 3) Fee-for-service incentives that punish prevention
- 4) A culture that treats anything sub-RCT as noise
Related in Vitamin D Life
- Total cost of health insurance for a US family exceeds their mortgage
- 10 reasons why US medical care costs so much
- Vitamin D is unprofitable, so medicine ignores it contains
The Gulf states (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
- They have extreme, openly acknowledged vitamin D deficiency
- Centralized health ministries that can issue top-down guidance
- Small populations
- Wealth to fund innovation
- A habit of importing best-practice protocols wholesale
- A single ministry decision can move a whole country
- Hevolution Foundation (Health + Evolution) has funded $400 million studies for health/longevity
explicitly including funding trials of treatments that are patent-expired or never commercialized
Possible Vitamin D trial to increase longevity in Saudi Arabia