The Cost of Failing: Pennsylvania broke decades of promises to build a better system for people with mental illness. One mother's desperate fight to save her son shows the devastating consequences.
The Cost of Failing: Pennsylvania broke decades of promises to build a better system for people with mental illness. One mother's desperate fight to save her son shows the devastating consequences.
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The tragic consequences of PA's failed mental health system
Deinstitutionalization began under Ronald Reagan. It was sold as freeing patients so they could be treated in the community, but most can't afford treatment if they can even find someplace that will accept them as a patient. It was a bait-and-switch to cut taxes.