The current system of care is a joke , your "fine" until your in complete crisis and your entire life is unraveling , then they try and help , due to limited resources they dismiss people as fine until a major crisis, when in reality a little support can go along way to keeping crises from occurring in the first place , but because government wants to continue to cut funding of all social programs people don't get the support they need before a critical point ,depression is the leading cause of unemplyment and disability but waiting till a person is at that point is penny wise and pound foolish , just like they started rationing test strips to diabetics a few years ago , by doing so they save about $300,000 a year , but the cost of emergency and ICU intervention has gone up 2 trillion dollars and rising in the same period , so there is no actual saving , diabetics used to have access to supplies at any pharmacy , yet under the new system more than 74% of patients don't have access to needed supplies, we are going in the complete wrong way in both mental and physical healthcare , I suck at math but building up the military and sacrificing healthcare is ludicrous , they are going to run out of healthy people to serve , when the draft ended for Vietnam they were drafting 42 year old men because they ran out of anyone younger to serve ,we don't have the draft anymore but we don't have enough healthy people to serve as is because we lack the basic mental and physical care of a modern nation , we are the last super power , and we are one of the last countries without adequately funded healthcare for all.
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