Nearly 60 Years After Congress Killed Off Mental Hospitals, Complete Breakdown of the System Has Lawmakers Attempting to Bring Them Back

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What people think is compassion sometimes brings bad results.

Fail to confront the slacking employee and other workers have to carry more of a load. Be a pal to your children and then be frustrated by their disrespect. Lavish welfare and then wonder why unappreciative people won’t work.

And then there’s the running away from obligations to protect the mentally ill from themselves and from society.

Perhaps you’ve had the same thoughts as I — the grand experiment in mental health care of the past half-century or so has failed.

Just witness the aggressiveness of babbling panhandlers, the general filth of helpless people living on the sidewalks, the destruction of cities such as San Francisco.

Believe it or not, the left-leaning Politico published an article Monday that gave a nod in the direction of some kind of return to the involuntary commitment of some mentally ill people.

Just a nod, mind you, but its general direction reflected an overall thoughtfulness, as in pointing out growing numbers of health professionals favoring a return to stricter controls on mental issues.

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