ummmm.... sweety? again i will
say
this
slowly......
JFK
wasn't prez in the 1980s.
but he was still dead in the 1980s.
ronald reagan was prez in the 1980s & he was alive & very willing to close the doors & release the patients of those institutions into nursing facilities & title 19 senior housing.
whether anything STARTED with JFK matters not. but you go girl, trying to somehow make it always somebody's else's fault.
" sweety?"
Don't nauseate me.
Facts:
1." On Feb. 5, 1963, ... President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress on "Mental Illness and Mental Retardation." He proposed a new program under which the federal government would fund community mental-health centers, or CMHCs, to take the place of state mental hospitals. As Kennedy envisioned it, "reliance on the cold mercy of custodial isolations will be supplanted by the open warmth of community concern and capability."
2. Kennedy's proposal was historic because the public care of mentally ill individuals had been exclusively a state responsibility for more than a century. The federal initiative encouraged the closing of state hospitals and aborted the development of state-funded outpatient clinics in process at that time.
3. .... the feds funded 789 CMHCs with a total of $2.7 billion ($20.3 billion in today's dollars). During those same years, the number of patients in state mental hospitals fell by three quarters—to 132,164 from 504,604—and those beds were closed down.
a. .... CMHCs were not interested in taking care of the patients being discharged from the state hospitals. Instead, they focused on individuals with less severe problems sometimes called "the worried well."
Take notes this time, you dunce.