• ceenote@lemmy.world
    27·
    9 days ago

    Well, it’s a good thing our hospitals have the capacity for that, or else they might just throw them into concentration camps or something. /s

  • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    8 days ago

    I remember this episode of futurama! The human asylum is full ever since being poor was declared a mental illness, so we send them both to the robot one

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    14·
    9 days ago

    Hospitals have plenty of places designed to keep people out, but not many that can keep people in. My grandmother broke out of her first dementia ward. Keeping people actually locked up and not in a place where they can simply walk the fuck out the door is insanely expensive because you actually have to feed and provide for them all day, every day and that takes way more manpower than simply PAYING FOR HOUSING.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    9 days ago

    Trump’s order instructs agencies to prioritize funding to mental health and drug courts — and to not fund “harm reduction” programs that the administrations said facilitate illegal drug use.

    Prioritize funding for mental health by not funding one of the few policy strategies that has shown any benefit to society in the last 40+ years of policy making.

    I love when surviving reality under the GOP becomes an unsolvable riddle. It’s like the other one they just gave us. “We’re not making any cuts to Medicaid, but you can’t have healthcare, unless you can prove you’re working. Also, the economy is fucked, we’re automating everything, and there are no jobs. Good luck!”