In Gainesville, FL, federal cutbacks may force the Merdian Center, a small residential treatment center for patients with psychiatric and substance-abuse problems, to shut down. This will leave over half a million residents in North Central Florida without access to publicly funded in-patient psychiatric services. The center has been the salvation of many, including a high school student who spent three months in the hospital regaining her emotional stability after several suicide attempts. How do you think the closing of this center will affect the community? What should be done to prevent the loss of services such as these? Read more here
Cutbacks Lead to Florida Loss of Psychiatric Services
Tags: Central Florida Health Insurance, Cutbacks Affect Florida Healthcare, Gainesville Florida Insurance
Wish that there were money trees so the State could give everybody everything that they “think” they neeed. Perhaps the clinic should ask the bow and arrow guys in Oregon for a mere $900,000 of the $3MM Congress earmarked for them in the “rescue bill”.
Just what we need. More crazy people running the streets of Florida. Didn’t this happen in the Reagan administration. Remember his cuts of these social programs, every homeless crazy man was left out on the streets to suffer in the cold.
Yikes! Thats too bad but emphasizes yet again who the states and the government really care about - the rich!
Looks like the real estate market is going to take another hit in north central FL, going to be loonies running around everywhere, no one will want to move there.