Subway Death

[Spencer Thiel]

What stories like this don't mention is that during JFK's presidency,
programs were started that would make it mandatory for mental help homes to
exist for something like every 60,000 individuals.  When Nixon took over,
the laws were repealed and the mentally insane were once agiain shoved in
overcrowded hospitals that acted as little more than prisons (an issue
nicely illustrated in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_).

At 10:50 AM -0800 1/7/99, Michael D. Workman wrote:


>"No Cure and No Solutions: U.S. Has Yet to Address Schizophrenia
>Successfully" - The recent arrest of a 29-year-old New York City man with
>schizophrenia, who allegedly pushed a young woman to her death in front of a
>city subway train, highlights the nation's failure to successfully confront
>chronic mental illness and help individuals manage their disease. USA Today,
>1/7, p. A3.
>
>This is truly a gruesome and tragic event, and the first story to have a
>visceral, as such, effect in this supposedly millenial year.
>
>
>Cheerio,
>
>Michael Workman
>Northwestern University
>Department Of Cardiology
>________________________________________________________________
>
>"Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black
>matter for the King that led them to it."
>
>--Henry V, Shakespeare


-Spencer T.