The esteemed Senator Harry Reid's home state has decided that it needs to reduce its overhead, apparently. What to do...what to do....I know!...Why not let out all the crazies? No? Not a good idea....HEY! How about if we let them out...and give them each a one-way ticket to another state?
GREAT idea!! Inspired!
And so they did.
San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera announced Monday that he is going to begin an investigation into Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada following accusations that the hospital has been providing patients with one-way Greyhound tickets to other states. The Sacramento Bee has run an investigative series into the hospital and claims that Rawson Neal has discharged around 1,500 patients this way, reports Yahoo News.
The Bee reports that many of the discharged patients were still mentally unfit and indigent. Around a third of them received tickets to locations in sunny California. Herrera said that sending the patients away with no structure ”to be received by family, medical facility, or other responsible person at the place of destination, and without adequate food or medication, the Nevada hospital placed the patients at risk.”
In one case, a man being treated in Rawson Neal was put on a bus to Sacramento with only three days worth of medication for his schizophrenia, depression and anxiety. The man said the doctor recommended the trip to California because the state has better health care than Nevada.
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Somebody must have been watching South Park, Night of the Living Homeless.
ReplyDeleteCaliforniaaa, super cool to the mental...
HAHAHAHAHAA! Change!....CHANGE!
DeleteWow, You could do that with all of your unemployed too. Give them a pay out in the form of a moving van, telling them that, while their benefits have run out in WI, the next state over would start all over with them. We could evac long term hospital care patients to hospitals just over the border, after we have checked on their financials. Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThe unemployed might be a little tougher to manage. They might want to stay - and they vote. With the mental, just spin them around a few times and load them on a bus with their name pinned to their jacket.
DeleteEasy. Peasy.