Nearly 50 Percent Of Mental Health Services Recipients In Giffords' County Were Dropped In 2010

[JohnWxy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/pima-county-mental-health-services_n_807522.html

WASHINGTON -- In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post.

The deep cuts in treatment were protested strongly at the time, with opponents warning that they would result in a spike in suicide attempts, public disturbances, hospitalizations and brushes with the police. But according to Clarke Romans, executive director for southern Arizona's branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the state government ignored requests for relief, citing the need to implement strict budget controls.
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[progressoid]

1. They should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps or something

I suppose.

[JohnWxy]

2. watch a few episodes of Dr. Phil...."Get a grip damn it! There, cured"

[progressoid]

3. Damn right, self help. We don't need no gov't run healthcare.

Hell, you'd think they could cure themselve online by now.

[KT2000]

4. The RW will learn

that the social safety net has been protecting them from chaos.
When people know the cost of everything and the value of nothing - they are shocked at the results of their government going down the drain as they have so desired.

[cutlassmama]

5. Doubt the RW will learn anything. Their heads are too far up their butts

to learn.