[MD] Sickness and Death

[Krimel]

[Marsha]
I'm with you, Chris.  Much (not all) of what is called 
medical/medicine is a Capitalistic hoax, and the media is fully 
participating in perpetrating that hoax.  I'll trust the medical 
establishment when it's primary function is prevention and healing 
rather than PROFIT.

[Krimel]
The problem is that most of the people receiving treatment for serious and
long term mental illness are not served in the for profit system. Most are
without means and are unable to hold jobs long enough to receive insurance
benefits. They are more likely to be indigent and or relying on Medicaid to
pay for treatment. Many receive minimal stipends through Social Security
disability. 

This is a complex issue and one that has along history. Even in the 1700s
there were periods of enlightened treatment and periods of merely
warehousing the mentally ill. Today partly because of the public expense of
mental hospitals, partly as a result of successful medications and partly as
a result of groups concerned with the civil rights of the mentally ill,
facilities all over the country have closed their doors. It is now estimated
at of the 700,000 homeless people in this country every day, some 30% are
mentally ill.