No, closing them was a step in the right direction, no healthcare in any form should be state run. The price of individual mental health care is cost prohibitive though, because it follows the market of state run healthcare, in most situations. It also basically hasn't changed that much in many years. Individual issues need individual attention, not cookie cutter approaches. The solution is community driven mental health help. We can do it with soup kitchens, why can't we do it for this? The expected rebuttal is "well how can we depend on the community to do it rather than the state"? Simple, you start. Hell I'm even inclined to do it myself, just trying to find people that would be interested in doing it too in my city. In the past, the church could solve this. And it still can.

No, closing them was a step in the right direction, no healthcare in any form should be state run. The price of individual mental health care is cost prohibitive though, because it follows the market of state run healthcare, in most situations. It also basically hasn't changed that much in many years. Individual issues need individual attention, not cookie cutter approaches. The solution is community driven mental health help. We can do it with soup kitchens, why can't we do it for this? The expected rebuttal is "well how can we depend on the community to do it rather than the state"? Simple, you start. Hell I'm even inclined to do it myself, just trying to find people that would be interested in doing it too in my city

No, closing them was a step in the right direction, no healthcare in any form should be state run. The price of individual mental health care is cost prohibitive though, because it follows the market of state run healthcare, in most situations. The solution is community driven mental health help. We can do it with soup kitchens, why can't we do it for this? The expected rebuttal is "well how can we depend on the community to do it rather than the state"? Simple, you start. Hell I'm even inclined to do it myself, just trying to find people that would be interested in doing it too in my city