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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?

remember they have work requirments for medicaid and section 8 so its basically lose job, become poor and drop to bottom barrel assitance, continued no job means no assitance, become homeless, instituionalized. then america profits somehow. well someone profits.

Debtors prison, that’s where we’re at now. I don’t disagree that some houseless people also suffer from mental instability, but they’re the ones you notice.

I live in California and have worked with people who had to sleep in their car. I’ve also been coded before. The experience was horrible; about 20-30 women in an always lit room with no door. Your bed was a chair that reclined. The common area was standing room only during the day while a troubled man shit himself.

All this does is shove a problem under the rug. The cost of living is insane, and support for people struggling with an addiction is handled by local groups.

With medicade gone the problem is about to get a whole lot worse

It’s OK though because I’m not Homeless or Mentally Ill