If any of you are feeling suicidal and want to go into an inpatient behavioral health hospital, and you want to pay out of pocket, your expected cost will run about $2,000-$5,000 per day you stay. The average stay is about 1 week, so that’s going to run you about $21,000 for the week (I went with $3k/day)
Google estimates there are about 550,000 homeless in the USA. Let’s assume 50% are mentally ill to the point of incapable of caring for themselves
Legal fees to remove their human rights = $2,000 per person so 2,000 * 275,000 = 550million, that’s just to remove their rights
Now the meat and potatoes, the cost to treat them. There are 52 weeks in a year * 21,000$ per week inpatient mental health treatment = $1,092,000
1,092,000 (cost to treat a person for a full year inpatient for mental health) * 275,000(number of homeless needing this) = $303,300,000,000 + 550,000,000 (cost to take away their rights) = $303,850,000,000
$303 billion 850 million
This is why the government has decided it’s more cost effective to let them die on the street and occasionally kill others
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