POTUS mentioned the insane asylums, and Commiefornia.

Another REDronnie special. Muh great communicator

POUS talking about the insane asylums - REDronnie did that, too.

Jimmy Carter signed the Mental Health Systems Act in 1980 which provided federal funding for state and locally ran mental health care facilities. 10 months later Ronald Reagan when the Gipper signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, ended ALL funding of the MHSA and all federal programs associated with the act. The MHSA was passed in almost near unanimous bi-partisan fashion, 277-15 and 93-3. It was the result of about a 30 year campaign to reform mental health care in the US and incorporate mental health into the overall public health system and planning.

Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown, two of the most consequential governors ever in California, led the state during two of the most well intended but poorly executed movements in this state’s history. The first was the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill. The second resulted in fewer prison inmates, and significant increases in homelessness and untreated mental illness.

The history of psychiatric treatment isn’t pretty. Too many people who were institutionalized for mental disorders suffered abuse, neglect and mistreatment. Gov. Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967, all but ending the practice of institutionalizing patients against their will.

When deinstitutionalization began 50 years ago, California mistakenly relied on community treatment facilities, which were never built. And the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act made it virtually impossible to compel treatment prior to extreme decompensation. https://archive.is/lRRdN

Out of institutions and needing shelter https://archive.is/mnkyu