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Compared to San Francisco where they're let to just wry in the wind?

• astrodust 10y ago
  Most American cities I've visited take an indifferent and/or actively hostile attitude towards people with mental illness. It's actually kind of scary.
  • pavel_lishin 10y ago
    Yeah. If you have a family history of mental illness and live in America, make sure you've got a big support network of friends and family, in case you develop a mental illness. That would probably be more useful than healthcare coverage.
    • astrodust 10y ago
      In America anyway where having health-care is tied to employment and employment can be difficult to maintain when you're increasingly mentally ill. Somewhere more civilized it's not as much a problem to see a psychiatrist, the cost is fully covered. If there's medication and you can't afford it there's ways of getting that covered too. It's much better to have people "in the system" where they're receiving disability support, subsidized housing, and medical care than to just turf them on the street or treat them as profit centers in private prisons.