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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:05 PM Apr 2013

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Over the past five years, Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America.

Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada's mental health division.


Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/14/5340078/nevada-buses-hundreds-of-mentally.html#storylink=cpy


I don't even know what to say about this. WTF is wrong with this country?
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Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country (Original Post) Little Star Apr 2013 OP
And then they complain about the homeless.... Sekhmets Daughter Apr 2013 #1
Yeah! Health-care in the USA is just great ain't it? Put them on a bus and forget about them... Little Star Apr 2013 #3
This particular piece of crap dates back to Reagan.... Sekhmets Daughter Apr 2013 #6
WTH? GreenPartyVoter Apr 2013 #2
Greyhound therapy HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #4
Oh, I am sure they are. GreenPartyVoter Apr 2013 #5
A real shame! Newest Reality Apr 2013 #7
Yeah I know,you a single adult? undergroundpanther Apr 2013 #25
wow, that's unbelievable. barbtries Apr 2013 #8
Just dump people off the bus with no meds and no ID. Shrike47 Apr 2013 #9
How cruel! burrowowl Apr 2013 #10
Wow! Damn! Baitball Blogger Apr 2013 #11
Los Angeles did it to Las Vegas just before the 84 Olympics. UnrepentantLiberal Apr 2013 #12
Generally this sad situation has been going on for quite some time. Wellstone ruled Apr 2013 #13
If this is how we are going to deal with budget cuts GitRDun Apr 2013 #14
Boom! valerief Apr 2013 #20
After how I ended up in Sprinfield after Joplin... Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #15
i bet many are sent to la Liberal_in_LA Apr 2013 #16
Shit. Salem, Oregon (the state hospital here) has been doing the same thing for 20 years or better. cliffordu Apr 2013 #17
This sounds similar to what Reagan did to the mentally ill... midnight Apr 2013 #18
Rich people will spend money on Senators but not taxes. nt valerief Apr 2013 #19
There are some stories that make me want to pick up my computer and smash it against the wall. BeliQueen Apr 2013 #21
Some hospital administrator has made a big bonus from all the savings. McCamy Taylor Apr 2013 #22
Hey, they missed Sharon Angle. JEB Apr 2013 #23
Hardly anyone is from Nevada; I guess they are sending them home. FarCenter Apr 2013 #24
No, the article says pnwmom Apr 2013 #29
You mean they've stopped flying them to Hawai'i? KamaAina Apr 2013 #26
We All Know What Its Wrong In This Country, It's Right Wing Dystopia, It Will Be The Death Of Us cantbeserious Apr 2013 #27
WTF, indeed ReRe Apr 2013 #28
This is how Nevada manages to spend half as much on mental health as the average state. n/t pnwmom Apr 2013 #30

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
1. And then they complain about the homeless....
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:09 PM
Apr 2013

There is no explaining it, no understanding it...there are simply people who value only their own lives and not any others. Sadly, those who are that selfish are the least desirable components of a civilized society and we seem to have an overabundance of them.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
3. Yeah! Health-care in the USA is just great ain't it? Put them on a bus and forget about them...
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:14 PM
Apr 2013

Makes me sick to see these poor people treated this way.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
6. This particular piece of crap dates back to Reagan....
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:21 PM
Apr 2013

So many of our homeless, during the 1980s, were those who had been kicked out of state mental hospitals. I am beginning to worry that our day of reckoning may be approaching, faster than we think.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
4. Greyhound therapy
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:14 PM
Apr 2013

Get on the Greyhound and get therapy somewhere else.

Nevada is getting tough love on this because of a high profile case back in Feb.

My bet is that many states which don't want to support medicaid are doing this.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
7. A real shame!
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:29 PM
Apr 2013

You asked what's wrong with this country.

Well, far too much in almost every aspect of it. That's factual by way of comparisons and charts that shows we are are already way down the tubes, (for most of us in America #2) and it seems that a functional and persuasive facade has been making that seem less so than it is.

You can go on and on and show facts and data that indicate we are in a dizzying, downward spiral that is holding up well, like a house of cards, so it is not that noticeable, superficially.

From education to poverty to incarceration rates to homelessness to health care to ... you name it ... America is, (for the rapidly expanding underclass) going Third-world with a nice, chocolate wrapper of sweet denial on it.

The rest of the Middle-class won't really get this clearly until they only see two directions to go from where they are and one of those directions is highly unlikely, the other, well, its really grim out there and there is NO safety net for adults without children, (as hoards of fundamental ostriches like to think).

The edge is near!

undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts)
25. Yeah I know,you a single adult?
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 10:48 PM
Apr 2013

No housing for U.

You transgender? Well we can,make sure you are never hired,respected, safe, assholes can get away with cruelty even though you are not cruel. Oh mentally ill? you have no rights at all,we can fill your body with drugs,tie you down like some weird S/m scene and make it so no one takes you seriously because you are now crazee and many will hate you and deny you are suffering,call you an addict or a loser even when you aren't one. They'll call you a freeloader,a liar,moocher even when you are not that way,because faux news tells them so.Ignorant lazy greedy doctors can blame physical problems as being all in your head because medicaid does not pay enough for a skilled doctor's time,so we'll just ignore the facts shall we,lose the weight blah blah,pretend psych meds don't mess with your body,..etc.etc.etc. you lost half a tooth MA don't cover dentistry,You have to pay out of pocket,and you get SSI,after the dentist ios through with you you might have 100 bucks for the rest of the month,or you can hurt for three watch it get worse and "save up" or wait a year for the dental school..ain't this country grand.

Fuck.

 

UnrepentantLiberal

(11,700 posts)
12. Los Angeles did it to Las Vegas just before the 84 Olympics.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:56 PM
Apr 2013

Every homeless person in LA got a free trip to Vegas. Hey, some people pay for that.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
13. Generally this sad situation has been going on for quite some time.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 09:04 PM
Apr 2013

Can you imagine what it must be like to get to some town in the middle of the night,and,that's the end of your ticket. Watched as a challenged person got of the Grey-Dog at about 12:15 at night 2 weeks ago. Yes Just out of curiosity,checked the county lock-up bookings later that night,sure as shit,there that person was. Booked as a homeless person no permanent address under the influence of a Narcotic drug.

Welcome to Udah!!!

GitRDun

(1,846 posts)
14. If this is how we are going to deal with budget cuts
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 09:08 PM
Apr 2013

maybe we should all buy some Greyhound stock?

This country needs an enema!

cliffordu

(30,994 posts)
17. Shit. Salem, Oregon (the state hospital here) has been doing the same thing for 20 years or better.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 09:33 PM
Apr 2013

Makes for good numbers of 'successful outcomes'.

Model Programs. More Money.

midnight

(26,624 posts)
18. This sounds similar to what Reagan did to the mentally ill...
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 09:36 PM
Apr 2013

Add link...


The Ugly: the closing of mental health hospitals in California and across the United States. Is it any wonder that California seems to have all of the crazy homeless people? State mental hospitals were taken away by Governor Reagan in the seventies, and federal mental health programs were later taken away by President Reagan in the eighties.

When Ronald Reagan was governor of California he systematically began closing down mental hospitals, later as president he would cut aid for federally-funded community mental health programs. It is not a coincidence that the homeless populations in the state of California grew in the seventies and eighties. The people were put out on the street when mental hospitals started to close all over the state.

Seeing an increase in crime, and brutal murders by Herb Mullin, a mental hospital patient, the state legislature passed a law that would stop Reagan from closing even more state-funded mental health hospitals. But Reagan would not be outdone. In 1980, congress proposed new legislation (PL 96-398) called the community mental health systems act (crafted by Ted Kennedy), but the program was killed by newly-elected President Ronald Reagan. This action ended the federal community mental health centers (see timeline on this link) program and its funding.

In closing, the next time you pass by a homeless person in downtown San Francisco screaming to themselves at the top of their lungs, remember Reagan. And if your kids need to go out and get jobs at age 9 to pay down the national debt, be sure to tell them that they can thank Ronald Reagan, and now President Bush, for their misfortune.

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/ronald-reagan-the-bad-and-the/

BeliQueen

(504 posts)
21. There are some stories that make me want to pick up my computer and smash it against the wall.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 10:00 PM
Apr 2013

This is one of them.

 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
23. Hey, they missed Sharon Angle.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 10:43 PM
Apr 2013

Wish they would have dropped Harry "No Filibuster Reform" Reid someplace other than DC. Seriously though, this is deplorable and probably many other states do something similar. If you have mental health issues and not much money in this country, you get to work out your problems under the overpass or in a jail cell. We are a hard hearted country.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
29. No, the article says
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 11:20 PM
Apr 2013

that the man who brought this issue to everyone's attention was sent to a town he had never even visited and where he knew no one.

And it turns out this isn't uncommon.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
28. WTF, indeed
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 11:04 PM
Apr 2013

...the state of Harry Reid, of course. This is a throw-it-away, sweep-it-under-the-rug,
out-of-sight-out-of-mind society. Folks, welcome to Ayn Rand World, formerly the USA.

Read the entire article and it did say that many of these patients, in their busting-at-the-seams mental institutions, are poor citizens who can't cope with poverty. Poverty is a killer, let me tell you. If it doesn't kill you physically, it will mentally.

"If God ain't up there," we're "fucked."....(borrowing from Darrell Hammond's book title... )


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