> As someone with direct experience with someone that has a mental illness, there needs to be something better than the present system. This is the truth. But

> As someone with direct experience with someone that has a mental illness, there needs to be something better than the present system. This is the truth. But the answer is not to go back to the system that the current one replaced (every US state has horror stories, in my state's case it was so bad someone opened a haunted house in the former state mental hospital), which was by all means, a lot worse. Right now the current system is so poorly funded that it has huge quality problems, care is largely inaccessible to people who need it, and workers burnout on high hours/low pay. > I also think it would pay for itself, as lots of mentally ill people don't get proper treatment, yet are still a huge burden on the health care system. Not to mention our social welfare system, judicial system and so on.