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Here’s the thing about the mentally ill, asylums for same, and rules of admission. My daughter spent over 25% of her life in such places.

There is a limit as to how much Medicaid will pay for such mental institution admissions. My own daughter met such a limit a few years ago.

The concept is that if someone is spending so much of their time in mental institutions there is a cheaper way to take care of them.

As an aside, my daughter managed to get that limit over-ridden because she is one of the few people on this planet who can get the gubmint to do anything she wants.

BUT....what they do is rent maybe a block of apartments, a building complex if you will. Those who are in mental institutions too long have their medicare/aid payments taken and they are given a nice apartment to live in, always with one roommate.

There are nurse’s living there, counselors, the “tenants” are treated right nice.

Yes my daughter has lived in these things since she was 16. She always manages to get re-admitted to some hospital, usually mental but she loves regular hospitals too.

They all get a monthly allowance and my daughter lives a right nice life in a right nice place, even now though she’s taking a vacation in Sheppard-Pratt.

Here’s the thing my fellow conservatives, one night in a mental institution costs about a thousand bucks nowadays. It’s not an efficient way to take care of the mentally ill as the apartment scenario is.

Of course not all “homeless” are in these apts....you do have to give up a lot of freedom.

My daughter wants to live with crazy people.

She loves hospitals. She does not want a child, a mother, a dog or a house.

But that apartment setup is way better than living life in a place filled with screams and mental pain.