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Originally Posted by kyp275
I mean, East Germany totally had to show they had to have something valuable and would work hard to prove they won't act like parasites before people tore down the Berlin Wall!
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East Germany was poorer than West Germany, but it was still the most prosperous Warsaw Pact country. The gap between the Koreas is orders of magnitude greater than between the two Germanies before unification.
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Originally Posted by Ithekro
What happened between when I graduated from high school and these sorts of incidents?
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One thing that has changed is that we stopped warehousing people with mental illnesses. Unfortunately we did not feel any need to pay for the extensive outpatient diagnosis and treatment services that such policies required.
This article from 2009 observes that "growth in mental health care costs has not tracked growth in health care costs overall. While the share of national income going to health care has been growing, the share going to mental health held steady at about 1 percent of national income for thirty years up through 2002." What is worse, if you look at the graphs in that article,
mental health spending by Medicaid, which serves poor Americans, was at the same level in 2006 as it was a decade earlier. For Americans with private health insurance, spending on mental health actually
outpaced spending on health care overall, largely because of the expanded use of drug therapies.