Sonya610
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The idea of free mental health screening is brilliant if our gvts are willing to get serious about mental illness and dole out the cash, but there needs to be aftercare and support too.
In the U.S. there is very little money for mental health care. The money goes to WIC, EBT cards, Section 8, Medicaid, prisons and many other social programs.
Know what WIC is? It is basically food stamps for folks that want to have children they can't afford to even feed, they are encouraged to have them seeing as how they will get free gov benefits the moment they are declared pregnant with offspring they can't support.
When a country is busy encouraging the irresponsible and destitute to have more children for the taxpayer to support they just don't have the cash for fancy and expensive mental health programs. It is about priorities!