Rated "D"

In a report released by the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), they have graded the United States mental health care system a big fat “D”. Many factors went into the grade and can be review at http://www.nami.org/.

One of the biggest criteria for the grades has been all of the recent cuts to the mental health care sector, like everything else is being blamed on the economic crisis. But NAMI is does not see this as acceptable. Other issues that raise concern is the alarming number of people being put in jail that are suffering from some mental disorder rather than treating them. NAMI says, “the costs of our failure to provide adequate services to people with serious mental illnesses are also well know (http://www.cnn.com/, http://www.nami.org/).”

I don’t know if it’s really fair to give the mental health system a low grade. The government provides funds for many of the programs offered. So, if we are grading we need to grade the government on the non-attempts at helping to fund clinics that are trying to help those cope with mental disorders.