Yeah, but that just means that those with mental illness -- hi, btw -- probably require more treatment than they've been getting.

A story. Up here in Vancouver, the police recently released a study showing that the thing we did in the nineties -- ending welfare and closing institutions for the severely mentally ill -- actually cost us vastly more, because the police ended up doubling as nurses/counsellors/social workers, and the additional training cost vastly more than the original division of labour.

What is the annual cost of leaving the hurt hanging?