If hospitals force out 70,000 patients immediately, we must be ready for several thousand of them to be homeless on the street.
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Yugo Miyata, who runs Yokohama Camellia Hospital, commenting on a government proposal, which would empty 70,000 beds to reduce the highest rate of psychiatric hospitalization among developed nations, lowering its 1.8 trillion yen annual mental-health payments. (BusinessWeek)
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JapanGal
Several?
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Gurukun
Great. 70,000 crazy and mentally unstable people let loose. Maybe those 70,000 beds can be filled with the people running the JGov.
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JapanGal
Half of them will jump in front of trains.
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Kronos
Cost-cutting measure for J-government. But I am not sure if it will work after encouraging psychiatric hospitalization for all these years.
The original article is below for those who want to read the details.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-13/releasing-70-000-japanese-psychiatric-patients-shows-noda-s-debt-challenge.html
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Bettingurlife
Once again, the Japanese obsession to be number one, but not through legitmate means. Just a game played through statistics to achieve a goal. I'd love to know what other government departments do a similar thing here.
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sillygirl
gee, we all know how well that worked out in the u.s. in the 80s.
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gaijinfo
As if there weren't enough nutters wandering around as it is....
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namabiru4me
sad...sad for those who need help and for the docs, nurses and people who actually care to have to let people go who are not ready...
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Utrack
This was done back in the eighties in Pennsylvania when they closed the Byberry Mental Institution in Winter no less.
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Maria
Just like Thatcher's Community Care in the 90s, in the UK. Absolutely a bad idea.
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