Behind Minnesota’s Medicaid fight is a harsher reality: psychiatric care is breaking first, and the people with the fewest options are paying the price.
When I moved from Minnesota, it was said to have the best and most effective psychiatric care in the country. People were hospitalized when needed, there were outpatient programs to help people stay out, for supportive care. It was treated as an illness or medical disorder. It has the most stigma of all medical problems. I’m a retired home health psych RN, now living in Oregon, where, unfortunately the mental health care is towards the bottom of the states. By doing all these changes and calling fraud, they are the ones creating even worse problems. They are the ones creating the fraud by intentional ignorance, lack of empathy, accountability on their part. Nobody wants to have a mental illness just like nobody wants to have a heart attack. But the individual has more control by their lifestyle to avoid the heart attack than the mental illness. The treatment is everything.
Would that the excesss profits banked by the billionaire class were merely distributed through wages/salaries to workers in their businesses. There would be less need for public safety net services.
When I moved from Minnesota, it was said to have the best and most effective psychiatric care in the country. People were hospitalized when needed, there were outpatient programs to help people stay out, for supportive care. It was treated as an illness or medical disorder. It has the most stigma of all medical problems. I’m a retired home health psych RN, now living in Oregon, where, unfortunately the mental health care is towards the bottom of the states. By doing all these changes and calling fraud, they are the ones creating even worse problems. They are the ones creating the fraud by intentional ignorance, lack of empathy, accountability on their part. Nobody wants to have a mental illness just like nobody wants to have a heart attack. But the individual has more control by their lifestyle to avoid the heart attack than the mental illness. The treatment is everything.
Would that the excesss profits banked by the billionaire class were merely distributed through wages/salaries to workers in their businesses. There would be less need for public safety net services.
This is the outcome from an Administration and a Republican Congress that have no empathy, only cruelty.