---The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative (www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/newfreedom/toc-2004.html). ---
We did this already, under Reagan in California. Now the crazies are all over the streets in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Berkeley. It's just wonderful: I'm moving.
Reagan was not responsible for this. It was part of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act which was in planning before Reagan became guv.