Love it when it snows

It seems snow is a past memory now..... :)



Thanks mapman for your refreshing lines of tought…. My best to you...

The Great Depression? I assume you mean the one in 2008. 

1965 Medicaid  and Medicare  is passed people living at home are eligible for benefits those in hospitals are not states start releasing patients to reduce costs shift it to Federal Govt 
1967 Reagan cuts 2600 jobs and 10% of the Dept Mental Hygiene  in CA. There are 22000 patients in institutions.
1967 Reagan signs LPS Act patient care outside hospitals is underfunded and woefully inadequate.
1973 Paitients in CA mental hospitals has dropped to 7000
1975 Supreme Court rules on O' Connor v Donaldson 
1980 Carter signs Mental Health Systems Act to help states financially return some responsibility to Federal Govt 
1981 Reagan repeals most of the MHSA in favor of block Grant's federal funding of mental health goes down 
2004 DoJ estimates 10% of state prisoners meet criteria for psychotic disorder

History

There used to be an affordable system in place for the downtrodden and mentally ill people. The great depression dictated the need.

Right. Downtrodden and ill only came into existence with the Great Depression. Before that was all wine and roses. Paintings on cave walls in France from 50,000 years ago show people gathered around vast dinner tables as buffalo and lions peacefully offer themselves up for the feast. 3 million year old hominid fossils are often found with their fire building tools and universal health care cards.

Sorry. I know that’s not very good. Trying to be equally nonsensical. Close as I can get without space aliens.