Well, it was questionable to the public when the Congress during Kennedy thought about removing our large scale psychiatric hospitals. Then it became frustrating for the public when Carter began funding public mental health centers and depopulating the large psyc hospitals, though due in part to reports of client abuse. It was then cheered by a more Liberal public, but scorned by the first responder professionals when Congress, during Regan’s first term, obliterated the psychiatric hospital system. Well since then (1981) the US has spent billions of more dollars a year in mental health services including meds, short term emergency inpatient, and regular ER hospital emergency visits and crisis services than it cost to run all the psychiatric hospitals for a full 100 years prior to 1981. And here NYC is again showing the need, as has California for decades, as is Oregon, and steadily Washington. The blue parts of Texas will be next. I wonder how far this goes from here?
Weird How History Continues To Repeat Itself. NYC to Start Involuntary Hospitalizations Again.
🤡 FUTURE 🤡
Yes a money maker for the bureaucrats, since the money streamed to their cities never makes it beyond a dribble, down to the front lines or people.