Why we need to control guns AND people.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Billionaire oligarchs gutted mental health 30 years ago.

They found a way to make sure that insurance companies didn't pay for mental health in illegal ways that politicians didn't care about. They found a way to make a profit and suck up all the mental health money for their deep corporate pockets and refuse to pay providers. Even though people had legally mandated mental health services as part of their insurance packages. Providers delivered those services.

This left providers going bankrupt or barely scraping by. This led to a lot of providers leaving the profession. And younger people didn't want to get a degree in a professional area where you are not going to get paid for services legally rendered and in compliance with insurance company rules and policies.

What the oligarchs did to mental health was the canary in the coal mine. It was the beginning of things to come.