Access to treatment depends on access to information. |
Getting help means getting access to information. When 40 states can't pass a pop quiz on providing basic information to the people whom they are supposed to serve, then the system is in trouble. |
If you need heart surgery, you don't want a surgeon who only got a C in medical school. The same principle applies in helping people with mental illnesses. |
Some good things are happening even in abysmal states. |
Treatment works, if you can get it, and if states get it right. Unfortunately, too many states are willing to risk or tolerate premature deaths. |