Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
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Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#2Why cut these services?!
Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#3Why cut these services?! Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
It's one route to privatization. Cut funding, manage poorly until nobody believes the state can do the job, then sell to your allies.
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#4Why cut these services?! Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
Who do you think cut these services?
This is GOP 101.
Never elect a Republican governor. See MI, ME, FL, etc, etc.
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#5Why cut these services?! Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
It's one route to privatization. Cut funding, manage poorly until nobody believes the state can do the job, then sell to your allies.
It's one route to nationalization. Increase regulation, make impossible to manage until nobody believes the company can do the job, then add it to your political platform.
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's one route to privatization. Cut funding, manage poorly until nobody believes the state can do the job, then sell to your allies.
It's one route to nationalization. Increase regulation, make impossible to manage until nobody believes the company can do the job, then add it to your political platform.
So cutting funding is increasing regulation how?
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#7This story is way too lengthy (and important) to have glitzy scroll tricks getting in the way. [Insert your favorite Creative Director joke here]
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#8This is just sad. Didn't something similar happen with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s?
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/timeline-mental-...
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#9Shit. That's bad. Those CC camera clips make it look more like the time I spent as a bouncer than someplace where people are safely receiving treatment for their mental conditions.
Re: Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed
#10This is just sad. Didn't something similar happen with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s? http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/timeline-mental-...
Yes, it happened in the 80's. I was in Berkeley, CA from 1980 through the end of that decade and the uptick in mentally ill people in Berkeley was staggering. The place was politically friendly and has nice weather, so it was a magnet for people just having been released from institutions, when they didn't have somewhere else to go.
And, of course, police departments all over the country have been sending their homeless and mentally ill to CA and Berkeley for decades, as well.