Our Government Servants
are robbing you blind
But you already knew that. What you perhaps did not know is how much goes to the mental health industry.
In Missouri, every person — man, woman and child — effectively pays $232 per year from taxes (highest ever!) to fund the Missouri Department of Mental Health.
For me, that’s three months of gas for my car. I’d like that money back.
If you think that’s bad news, it gets even worse.
The Missouri Department of Mental Health annual budget is now $1.4 billion, highest ever, with a very large amount (over 50 percent!) coming from Federal tax funds.
If you think that’s bad, wait, it’s even worse than that. We haven’t counted all the funds for mental health programs going to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Social Services, and the Department of Health and Senior Services. It’s not always obvious where the money goes, but where it is explicitly appropriated this year for mental health related programs, here’s how it plays out:
Dept of Elementary & Secondary Education gets $10,099,337.
Dept of Corrections gets $145,257,274 (for both physical and mental health; let’s just call it half of that, $72,628,637, for mental health, since they don’t separate physical from mental health services in the budget.)
Dept of Social Services gets $238,412,280.
Dept of Health & Senior Services gets $1,393,104,435 (you got that right, over a billion dollars for mental health services appropriated for the Dept of Health & Senior Services.)
Totals
If we add together all these appropriations for mental health programs from all these departments, we get a staggering total of $3,107,349,124. That’s $3 billion dollars of psychiatric fraud and abuse. Just in Missouri.
And THAT’S $517 per person per year in Missouri. What do you think it is in Your state?
Six months of gas for my car, wasted on psychiatric fraud. How would YOU measure it? Better send CCHR a donation quick, so we can continue fighting psychiatric fraud and abuse and return sanity to mental health care.