Nonilex1d ago

#Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the #Deaths Began.

Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse.

#law #policy #PublicHealth #health #government #SocialServices #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/health/idaho-mental-health-act-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.

Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.

The New York Times
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@Nonilex

Sadly this started out as a planfrom the Right Wing Savior Ronald Reagan. He closed the Institutions for community based care then started reducing the funding for them till they could no longer do their jobs.

This is also the birth of the Homeless problem in California and around the Nation. The GOP has repeatedly taken functional programs and cut them till this is what we get. . .

Just as they've done with Medicaid with the Big Beautiful Bill. Just guess how that will turn out.

Apr 13 at 9:46pmWeb