RT Journal
T1 FEderal fun and deadly games
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1973
FD June 1
VO 28
IS 6
SP 753
OP 754
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1973.01750360003001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1973.01750360003001
AB The time has come to stop the federal fun of substituting word games for responsible planning. The advertising and corporation executives brandishing the New Federalism (more executive power, less accountability and responsibility) have had their turn at the wheel. Playing ideological roulette with an imperfect but once encouraging biomedical enterprise, they have successfully evaded serious dialogue about goals. They have substituted pseudomoral platitudes and "free market" economic jargon for the hard work of confronting the practical issues of who supplies, delivers, and pays for reasonable care for the mentally ill. There is no magical option: The patient, third parties, or governments must pay the bill, or mental health skills will be dissipated, available only to the very rich.