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This reads a bit like he wants a return of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, just without the lobotomies.
Extending involuntary commitment past “a danger to self or others” to include vagrancy is quite the stretch.
The current landscape of medical hospitals is such that involuntary psych holds are often boarding in a medical bed, using extra staff for closer obs for up to a year each, waiting for placement to a mental health bed. Empty mental health beds are rare. Even outpatient therapy is defunded, even in blue states.
Where does Trump think these people are going to be commuted to? Or is his plan to concentration camp them in places like the bedlam of yore?
Oh this is definitely going to bring back the institutions of old…
I can’t imagine where they’d find doctors and nurses to work these Trumpian facilities.
There aren’t enough psychiatrists and psychologists for the current job openings. Nurses are likely too marketable to work that type of job unless they’re so bad they’ve been rejected everywhere else.
Of note, prison is the #1 provider of mental health services in the USA. They can’t fill their psychiatry job openings either.
But this might be the plan. Forced rehab in for profit prisons.
Yeah I’d like to believe they’d get this half right and get actual professionals… but it’s Trump and he’ll just create a literal skyscraper of “the bearings will continue until morale improves” and claim it’s a new kind of mental health care or something