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To: V_TWIN

We’ve had a major mental health crisis ever since Reagan allowed the left to convince him to close the asylums.


31 posted on 02/18/2026 7:55:10 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: FrankRizzo890

Yep and most people aren’t aware of that fact.


32 posted on 02/18/2026 7:57:25 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: FrankRizzo890

California democrat governors before and after Reagan did the same. No one gets a “pass” on closing the mental hospitals. They need too be reopened pronto!


35 posted on 02/18/2026 8:19:17 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: FrankRizzo890; V_TWIN
We’ve had a major mental health crisis ever since Reagan allowed the left to convince him to close the asylums.

It's not on Reagan.

In the mid-1960s a Medicaid provision prohibited reimbursement to states for mental illness treatment in facilities that had more than sixteen beds. States then closed their large mental hospitals in order to get 50% reimbursement from Medicaid for out-patient treatment.

40 posted on 02/18/2026 9:01:33 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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