tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post5122733760379929260..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: The Fringe Versus the MainstreamAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-76615605627098871942019-04-17T14:27:24.775-04:002019-04-17T14:27:24.775-04:00Nobody knows the total amount of money it takes to...Nobody knows the total amount of money it takes to keep the place open, AND provide treatment. But it MUST be out there somewhere...<br /><br />James: Ah, The DAISY commercial. Dems lied then, and still do.<br /><br /><br /><br />Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-21378322023237486972019-04-17T04:40:37.632-04:002019-04-17T04:40:37.632-04:00I worked about a year as an aide/mental health wo...I worked about a year as an aide/mental health worker at a private psychiatric hospital. Back then, it cost about $100 a day. Which means that costs have gone up about 3 times that of inflation, if one assumes that the hospital I worked at now charges around the $2800/day you quote. At the time, I earned about 10% above minimum wage.<br /><br />From my time working there, I drew come conclusions that also affected my political views. 1)Money to fund things is finite. Time and again, patients were discharged because insurance ran out. Though for some patients, the insurance was quite generous- usually state employees.<br />2) Funding a certain program is no guarantee that the program will perform as promised or as proposed. As many psychiatric issues are difficult to intractable, Canute commanding the tide to recede comes to mind. Sometimes psychiatric care works, sometimes it doesn't. That doesn't mean that psychiatric care should't be funded. It does meant that funding it will not necessarily produce the results it wants. <br /><br />From my year working at a psychiatric hospital I developed a skeptical attitude towards pols and activists who shouted to the world that they had a social program that was SO GOOD. Just fund it. Like Head Start, which has not done what it initially proposed to do. <br /><br />I didn't leave with a high opinion of the Freudian approach, which at the hospital was viewed as mostly ineffectual.RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61960103989165878102019-04-16T21:43:56.033-04:002019-04-16T21:43:56.033-04:00Is the allergy to seeing limitations a faith that ...Is the allergy to seeing limitations a faith that someone somewhere is hiding all the money we need for everything, or is it a faith that if we bring our 5 loaves and 2 fish to the state it will be multiplied?<br /><br />Vicious slurs aren't new at all. I seem to remember things said about Nixon. We didn't have a TV at the time (my parents wanted us to read--I guess it worked), so I didn't see the Goldwater bomb commercial until a few years ago.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com