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meanit

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16. If you can pay for it

Sun Feb 19, 2012, 04:50 PM

Feb 2012

some for profit hospitals and programs will provide excellent care. But privatizing care for those who have limited or no ability to pay often means substandard care in poorly run facilities. And don't look for "state oversight" of these places to amount to anything. The politicians who make this outsourcing possible will surely appoint likeminded cronies to issue glowing reports on "how well things are now working with the privatized system."
This nonsense of saying that private, for profit companies can do it better and cheaper is an absolute crock of shit.

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Alabama will shut down most of its mental health hospitals by early 2013. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 OP

Send Them To The Churches TheMastersNemesis Feb 2012 #1

I like that idea. FarPoint Feb 2012 #12

Too many of those patients ended up in JAIL! Auntie Bush Feb 2012 #2

Or just living in the streets liberal N proud Feb 2012 #6

Not in Alabama Ratty Feb 2012 #10

Exactly. FarPoint Feb 2012 #13

Right, Been there, Done that. elleng Feb 2012 #3

If the 'States are the laboratories of democracy', then the southern ones are run by Mengele's ghost stockholmer Feb 2012 #4

Actually, I think we're living in a Petri dish ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 #5

Is there a competition to see xxqqqzme Feb 2012 #7

The financial squeeze on Community Mental Health centers is a problem nationwide. pinto Feb 2012 #8

From my years of experience in Mental Health dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #11

We still have a small, county in-patient unit for 72-hour holds here. pinto Feb 2012 #14

And they'll go to for-profit jails xfundy Feb 2012 #9

i have extensive knowledge of community based facilities madrchsod Feb 2012 #15

I will say that we did get frequent oversight from the state certification agency dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #17

my wife works for a for profit.. madrchsod Feb 2012 #18

I am so glad you have unions there. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #19

If you can pay for it meanit Feb 2012 #16

nvm jis6255xe Feb 2012 #20