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Wow. I haven't perused this thread until just now. I think one thing that needs to be udnesrtood is that the problem doesn't lie within the medical and insurance in dustry as much as it does in our way of life in America. I know from first hand experience dealing with a family member that it is very very very difficult to get someone help unless they want it. They have to be an imminent threat to themselevs or others to be forcefully taken. He was at one piint but where the system breaks down is that as soon as a doctor, any doctor, decides "ok this guy has straightened out enough to make decision on his own" he can leave. Our interpretation of danger is just so conservative and I wouls say most of this is properly based on the foundation of freedom.

If we could quantify his isanity with a number I would bet there are millions of people in this country that are as insane or more and they didn't do this and almost never do.

This was an isolated instance of a rare manifestation of insanity. It is no one's fault beyond the fault you can lay at his feet.