Sick man denied mental health services, shot by militarized police instead of treatment.
Good job? What you were applauding was a turkey shoot. Should never have happened.
But people prefer a show, as long as they think they are above such a thing.
Cost of not caring: Nowhere to go:
THE FINANCIAL AND HUMAN TOLL FOR NEGLECTING THE MENTALLY ILL.
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
More than half a million Americans with serious mental illness are falling through the cracks of a system in tatters, a USA TODAY special report shows.
The mentally ill who have nowhere to go and find little sympathy from those around them often land hard in emergency rooms, county jails and city streets. The lucky ones find homes with family. The unlucky ones show up in the morgue.
"We have replaced the hospital bed with the jail cell, the homeless shelter and the coffin," says Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., a child psychologist leading an effort to remodel the mental health system. "How is that compassionate?"
States looking to save money have pared away both the community mental health services designed to keep people healthy, as well as the hospital care needed to help them heal after a crisis.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/12/mental-health-system-crisis/7746535/
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