Nevada

So a Las Vegas psychiatric facility's solution to a person with schizophrenia and depression was to  put the person on a bus to Sacramento.

I had a patient once who didn't want to move to Nevada, where some of his family went to retire, because the mental health system is supposed to be not very good. Then I read the article linked above.

Now that's a policy decision of the public, which can be ignorant or easily duped by slick politicians--so maybe they didn't consciously decide that, but it's what the politicians are "leading" the state towards--terrible mental health services.

Maybe some cynical politician will think it's good, nobody with mental health problems will move here. That puts an unfair burden on states who are not stingy.

In a state with terrible mental health services, it might be a good strategy for individuals to be sent to another state, but it is passing the buck as a general policy. If I was a Nevada resident I would be ashamed. It shows a lack of vision for the larger picture, and a depressing comment on the state of mental health services in Nevada.