RE: My battle with Mental Illness
April 20, 2022 at 5:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2022 at 5:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
People did, back while they were being made homeless as communities disabused themselves of a responsibility to care, emptying out wards. Started back in 1965 when medicaid and medicare were established. Mentally ill people living on their own were eligible, but psychiatric patients were not. Discharging them was a way to push the cost to the federal government.
After they'd emptied the wards to push off those costs, they used the now nearly empty wards as a reason to cut funding for mental health programs. Pretty sure Saint Ronny got in on that action...but I might be wrong, I constantly mix up the dates and neer do wells. I know that he ended up, when he was president, pushing the bill back on the states - but they'd already slashed funding because of the prior grift......so, here we are.
People saw this for what it was at every step of the way - but there's little that can be done about it in the here and now.
After they'd emptied the wards to push off those costs, they used the now nearly empty wards as a reason to cut funding for mental health programs. Pretty sure Saint Ronny got in on that action...but I might be wrong, I constantly mix up the dates and neer do wells. I know that he ended up, when he was president, pushing the bill back on the states - but they'd already slashed funding because of the prior grift......so, here we are.
People saw this for what it was at every step of the way - but there's little that can be done about it in the here and now.
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