If you'd like to improve mental health care in the United States, forget the funding issues for a moment: instead, start with disassembling the likes of the Sub

If you'd like to improve mental health care in the United States, forget the funding issues for a moment: instead, start with disassembling the likes of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a division of Health and Human Services which is staffed more or less entirely by "consumer/survivor"-movement flunkies and uses its $3.6 billion annual budget to oppose everything the modern medical establishment has to say about mental health and mental health care, whether it take the form of psychiatry, drugs, or outpatient treatment. But these margins are too narrow to contain a full discussion of the matter so I'll leave continued research as an exercise to the reader. :P