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The New York Times reported that his finding had “profound economic implications,” because it offered a way to cut the $1 billion the nation was then spending on mental illness. It said many patients could receive immediate treatment and avoid long-term hospitalization.

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The rest they got back when they threw everyone out of and closed down all the hospitals in the 1980s-90s so all the mentally ill were homeless and they didn't need to spend anything on them.