Hillary Clinton supporter and Superdelegate, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) resigned today, June 23, 2016 due to being found guilty of corruption. Now we just need Clinton herself to be prosecuted and unable to be the nominee.
Sadly, the crisis in mental health care being reported by the Spotlight team is true. As I said, wrote, and testified when the state mental health care system, including hospital level of care beds AND the community mental health system, was being dismantled under both "Republican" and "Democratic" governors, with the promise of something better - "People will die". I have seen this happen, including clients - and it is nearly impossible to get any mental health care for the indigent, marginally employed, and low income population, and indeed for most middle class folks, let alone long term mental health care and therapy. This is one of many reasons I am disenchanted with both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as heartless. While there are some elected and appointed officials with compassion who are statespeople, they are a tiny minority. See:
The Desperate and the Dead: The Boston Globe Spotlight team investigates Massachusett's mental health care crisis.
The Desperate and the Dead
by The Boston Globe Spotlight team
One by one, nearly all the old state psychiatric hospitals were boarded up or bulldozed, but Massachusetts leaders broke their promise to replace them with something better - or much of anything at all. The failed mental health care system has led to a public safety crisis, including scores of murders by disturbed people, police shootings, and embattled institutions from courts to hospitals confronting a tidal wave of mentally ill people.
Read Part 1 now →
The Desperate and the Dead
by The Boston Globe Spotlight team
One by one, nearly all the old state psychiatric hospitals were boarded up or bulldozed, but Massachusetts leaders broke their promise to replace them with something better - or much of anything at all. The failed mental health care system has led to a public safety crisis, including scores of murders by disturbed people, police shootings, and embattled institutions from courts to hospitals confronting a tidal wave of mentally ill people.
Read Part 1 now →
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