Reply #1: Mental Health Parity

[rogue_bandit]

I don't know what's going on locally, but I do know that we took a poor friend suffering from serious mental illness in to the emergancy room on a cold, snowy night. They treated her like dirt, eventually she walked away and they didn't care. She was suffering from paranoia, in addition to voices, so they sent down three security guards to help her out...couldn't send a counselor or someone with compassion.

In our area, this is the only place to take someone suffering from mental illness. The county actually pays for something like eight beds all year round to help these people, and the hosptial gets special use of bonds in the city's name, and they get property tax relief and non-profit status.

They compete with another nearby hospital. Our town is a regional medical center. We have more sophisticated scanning devices per capita than any place in the northwest.

Ugly.