Federal probe into Las Vegas Greyhound Therapy...

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2. The origins aren't really at issue, the practice of dumping patients is egregious

I agree that it seems unlikely that one Las Vegas hospital will be the sole institutions doing this. A number of states are cutting back on medicare spending and who is easier to abuse than mentally ill whose GAF is so low that they cannot care for themselves? Those people are almost certainly not going to be able to seek the legal aid needed to fight back.

This really isn't a problem with the philosophy of community-based treatment--which never said dump patients in neighboring or distant states. Community-based treatment was an attempt to move away from the deplorable conditions of mental hospitals after WWII. Conditions so bad that a documentary made about one of them--Bridgewater State Hospital, in Massachusetts--released in the late 1960's under the title Titicut Follies (cuts of which are found in various you-tube files) was actually banned from viewing by the public by the court.




In the third quarter of the last century, the public was outraged by deplorable treatment of the mentally ill. A better more humane treatment was supposed to be found through community based care for mental illness.

The dumping going on is certainly not better treatment.

It does need light shown on it. And in that respect a federal investigation is a good thing.

But, I'm not hopeful that an anti-social spending Congress will voluntarily reach into federal pockets to replace monies being cut out at the state level.