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That seems like an accurate TL;DR to me. Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would
by IanDrake 9y ago
That seems like an accurate TL;DR to me.
Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would fix this.
However, it's not as if we went from a national healthcare system to a market based system and things disintegrated, the opposite is true.
Healthcare regulations and government intervention has increased of the last 50 years and things have gotten worst, and by worse, I mean expensive.
Having a family member with mental issues, I can assure you of what the real problem is...and you're not going to like it.
The real problem with mental health in the US is the institutions have been shut down and we no longer commit the mentally ill in mass. Instead they get forcefully drugged for a few weeks in a hospital, then they start behaving better, then they're released with a prescription, then they stop taking their meds. Wash, rinse, repeat.
- mcphage 9y ago> Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would fix this. You're making a common error—Correlation does not imply Causation. The author is correlating these phenomenon, but not implying a causal relationship. Instead, he's positing that there's an additional cause to both—that America is in the midst of a societal collapse.