[sunmars]

Shocking, kid was basically committed but sent home as they had "no room"...

Guess we'll be seeing a lot more of this in the future....under all the changes.

[pogo101]

Surprising that a patient whom the doctors, etc. agreed should be committed, was not TRANSFERRED to another facility if the first facility was full.

RIP and prayers for both son and father.

[USNBandit]

We don’t have a gun problem, we have a mental health problem.

[Responsibility2nd]

Prayers up. What a complete tragedy for this family.

[snowstorm12]

He shouldn’t have let him back in the house.

[llevrok]

Thank God he had healthcare coverage.

What? That’s not until 2014? Well, now we are getting to the reason why.

Start the “we need more healthcare for the mentally ill” clock on 10-9-8....

[roses of sharon]

I wonder what kind of prescription drugs these violent and depressed young men have been on since they were children??

Is there a common thread among these guys?

[Mears]

I find these violent family incidents so disturbing.

I have been lucky but knowing people who have been through this type of thing with either mental illness or alcoholism as a cause I realize how horrendous it can be.

.

[Go Gordon]

Shocking, kid was basically committed but sent home as they had "no room"...

If Bush was the architect of Obamacare, the media and democrats would be blaming Bush because Obamacare created the shortage of space.

[mmichaels1970]

Shocking, kid was basically committed but sent home as they had "no room"...

I've have experience with the psych ward not having beds available. Basically in our situation, the ER HAD to keep the person until a bed became available. There were also no additional charges for the overnight stay at the ER. That is how it should be done, IMHO.

[Da Coyote]

This is indeed a very unfortunate incident.

However, if I read the article correctly, it appears that the lib father had a gun. Correct?

Why did he have one?

Did he in any way attempt to further gun control?

In any case, it is fortunate that he did possess a handgun, which he evidently used in an acceptable manner, given the situation.

[oh8eleven]

just one day after he was committed to a psychiatric ward ... but could not be committed because there were no beds available
I guess he wasn't actually "committed" then was he?
Like the Seinfeld episode with the rental car. Made the reservation .. but they had no car.

[ez]

Let’s be bigger men than the leftists and pray for Mr. Deeds’ recovery. (Ffft ... mr deeds :)

[Mastador1]

This should play well with the Brits, now they can say that American healthcare is on a par with England’s!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Deeds stabbed father 1 day after he was sent to psych ward but sent away as there was no room...ah yes, the lingering legacy of a previous big government attempt to solve one of the nation's health problems - back in the fifties and sixties Eisenhower and Kennedy got the bright idea that the government was going to provide treatment for the mentally ill in their own communities, away from big, evil psychiatric hospitals which were so dehumanizing and unhealthful - they funded the community mental health center movement with seed money which was supposed to start the construction and operation of such centers which the states were eventually going to take over - you know, sort of like the big push to fund more Medicaid care today under Obamacare, with the states eventually picking up more of the cost - anyhow, after a few years, once many of the old hospitals were closed and patients were back in the community, the feds slowed and finally cut funding for the problem, leaving the states to cover the cost which most of them could scarcely manage - hence, patients sleeping under bridges, transinstitutionalized into prisons rather than hospitals, and even stabbing their fathers to death because there's no room for them at inpatient treatment facilities - thanks big government.....

[jmaroneps37]

Just a little taste of what the future will be if we don’t dump Obamacare.