06-02-2019, 12:06 PM
"R.Reagan closed the mental hospitals and created much of the homeless problem we have today."
Please explain. As governor of California he signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act which limited a family's ability to commit somebody to a mental institution without due process. Other states later implemented similar laws.
As president he shifted mental health care expenses to the states through block grants. How the states spent these funds was not a 'Reagan' decision.
The first president to initiate mental health reform on the federal level was JFK after the discovery and implementation of the drug thorazine. "Mental health" facilities, AKA "Insane Asylums" were just prisons for crazy people until drugs were developed that could treat many of them. Are you suggesting that all crazy homeless people should be imprisoned? Because that's what we used to do before Reagan implemented a law making that illegal.
Please explain. As governor of California he signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act which limited a family's ability to commit somebody to a mental institution without due process. Other states later implemented similar laws.
As president he shifted mental health care expenses to the states through block grants. How the states spent these funds was not a 'Reagan' decision.
The first president to initiate mental health reform on the federal level was JFK after the discovery and implementation of the drug thorazine. "Mental health" facilities, AKA "Insane Asylums" were just prisons for crazy people until drugs were developed that could treat many of them. Are you suggesting that all crazy homeless people should be imprisoned? Because that's what we used to do before Reagan implemented a law making that illegal.