Is Reagan responsible for the mental health care crisis in this country?

[*kjm]

During the Reagan presidency we took a major step backwards in terms of Mental healthcare.

Reagan ended nearly all government support for mental healthcare.
Patients who were being treated and housed at mental health facilities were order to be throw onto the streets without any support.
Mental health patients were basically left out in the cold without any support, Reagan had them made homeless and destitute without one caring for them, and without any access to proper medical care.

I think his actions really set mental healthcare in the US back decades, we still haven't recovered from his actions IMHO.

You may be right your from that gen right.....

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2188559&highlight=dry+socket

 

[RabidMongoose]

Including those that began in the 1970s. That Ronald Reagan sure was an amazing man.

Reagan just accelerated those problems.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

People that actually work in mental health would disagree with everything you posted there. But I'm sure you know more than they do.

The condition of state run mental hospitals in California back in the 60's were atrocious enough that there was enough bi-partisan support from both the Republican and Democrat sides of government to end that system when Reagan was governor. Many mental health patient rights groups were just as adamant for wanting these state run "hospitals" closed considering all the horror stories coming out at the time depicting the horrible crap that would go on in these government run facilitates. Of which these institutions had no real incentives at all to provide quality care to their patients in the long term. In fact most people with the financial means back then would often select privately run facilities to get the treatment they felt their loved ones properly deserved which they knew they would not receive in government run mental hospitals.