And roughly 40 years have passed and nothing has been done to reverse that move.
How can politicians say they care about the country and do nothing about this?
Back in June 30, 1950, there were
577,000 patients or 3.8 per 1,000 population resident in all hospitals for the prolonged care of the mentally ill in the United States (Table 1). In addition there were 94,000 patients on extra-mural care.
And here is an interesting article ,
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January 3, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST
Just when the United States started to make some progress reversing decades of mass incarceration, Democrats want to lock up people with mental illness in the name of compassion and care.
New York Mayor Eric Adams called it a
“moral obligation” to hospitalize people against their will if they are a danger to themselves. His proposal has police officers assessing whether a person is mentally ill.
In Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler recently told a roomful of business leaders that he wanted to lower the threshold for involuntary commitment of people who are both mentally ill and homeless, declaring:
“They need help, and they need compassion.” The outgoing director of the Oregon Health Authority echoed Wheeler,
calling for expanding the capacity of the Oregon State Hospital, the site of the 1975 film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
