“New York spends $5,118 per day per patient in state facilities for the mentally disabled, equivalent to $1.9 million a year per patient.”
I would agree to be mentally disturbed outside a state facility — say on a Caribbean beach — for only $1,000/day. Think of the savings!
Let’s start a bidding war, I’ll volunteer to be mentally disturbed on a creek bank in South Carolina for $ 950.00 per day. What the heck, I’ll even volunteer to be sane for that much.