Look, just read the article and you'll see it: "After several months, he had recovered enough to be discharged. But, out in the world, his life was simply anot

Look, just read the article and you'll see it: "After several months, he had recovered enough to be discharged. But, out in the world, his life was simply another hospitalization waiting to happen." Hospitalizations can cost thousands of dollar per day. So this stay cost in the several hundred thousand dollar range. [skipping some paragraphs]. He is given a stable housing environment: "I spoke to Hendricks recently. He has gone without alcohol for a year, cocaine for two years, and smoking for three years. He lives with his girlfriend in a safer neighborhood, goes to church, and weathers family crises. He cooks his own meals now. His diabetes and congestive heart failure are under much better control. He’s lost two hundred and twenty pounds, which means, among other things, that if he falls he can pick himself up, rather than having to call for an ambulance." The entire article is about this sort of thing and about many cases.