'What we’ve been doing for decades hasn’t worked very well. We should try something different. It’s long past time for the state to keep a half-century-old promise,' writes LATimesSkelton.
There’s a bipartisan attempt in the state Legislature to finally finish the mental health reform that Gov. Ronald Reagan and lawmakers began 56 years ago. They botched the job back then.The 1967 reform was a splendid idea. It just didn’t get implemented as promised. Now it needs to be updated — altered to address the realities of mental health care — and given more money.
The reform also worked against mentally ill people getting treatment because it became much more difficult to force them into care. They had to volunteer for it in most cases. And many refused to acknowledge — or didn’t even know — that they were sick. I suspected then and still do that Reagan’s main motive was to cut state spending. He was quick to close state hospitals. But he wasn’t about to send lots more state money to counties for local care. The rookie governor was fighting a budget deficit, and he even raised taxes.
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