Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Texas way of Mental Health Care for the poor
If you are poor, live in Texas and have schizophrenia, your best chance at care will be in prison. Go figure the logic of this. If one is able to be treated with the generics out there, prescribed by a competent psychiatrist, the taxpayer costs could rise to $5,000. a year max. However, if one takes the Texas approach, we pay $38,000-40,000 a year to keep an offender behind bars, and we throw in psychiatric care and meds--for free?
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