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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:46 AM Original message |
Orlando shooter "could no longer afford (mental health) treatment" after losing job & insurance |
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johnfunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. The takeaway: Mental health care REDUCES violent crime. |
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peace frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. What also needs to be said |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. one of the things i liked about tipper gore was her advocacy for mental health. |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:54 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. it impacts every level of society -- it's not just the rare, random office shooter, |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. knr. Affordable and available emotional healthcare services are essential to a humane society. |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. Even among those who HAVE medical insurance |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. there is no incentive for treating mental health in our current system. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
4. Those near Orlando who REALLY know, pls. tell me |
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peace frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Free mental health care in Florida? |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. i've not had to deal with the mental health system since i was a child, when i had a family member |
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lupinella (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Orlando resident here |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. ... |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. My BIL is mentally ill (bipolar, psychotic features, OCD, ADD, -- |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 12:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. this is very close to the situation i had when i was a kid here in florida... |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. Let us be careful here |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. oh yeah -- definitely. it's the 1 in 1,000,000 who has violence in their soul -- they're the ones |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. agreed |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:09 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. this person actually did have mental illness. i'm not speaking for the ones who aren't mentally ill. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Possibly |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. and so, your takeaway is that mental health does not make society safer. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. No mental health does make society safer |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. Deep down everyone has the capacity to kill. When not on my meds the times my |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
15. Maybe he wasn't a sympathetic guy. |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. eggsactly. i would have gladly put my dead prez in that hat. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. BUT FIRST HE HAS TO SHOW HE IS LOOKING FOR WORK! NO MORE FREE RIDES FOR SCHIZOPHRENICS! |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-08-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. I wonder what the conditions were of his firing. |
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jbnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
18. The article doesn't have detail about his mental health treatment |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. you're absolutely right. even with the best insurance people fall thru -- and, this guy was |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. Let's just ban all guns instead of providing mental health care. It would be much cheaper. |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. And since it's a sure fire way to lose elections, we will never have to deal with finding solutions |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. as soon as I heard Faux Noise was going to interview the EX wife's mother |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
31. Kicked and recommended. |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
32. Ronald Reagan emptied a lot of mental hospitals |
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