RE: Breakdown: A Crisis In Mental Health Care

Here's the actual problem:

In Forsyth County, CenterPoint Human Services, the local public mental-health agency, decided to meet the state's requirement by creating a new private company.

Center Point is managed by idiots. I know first-hand, I was nominally on their board of directors for a while. The pinheads who manage Center Point's day-to-day activities are probably better suited to be inmates. The stupidity of Center Point's management cannot be understated. The problem with this effort wasn't with the privatization mandate itself, the problem was that they allowed the incompetents who were running Center Point (the very people who should have been put out of work by the mandate) to implement it. And Center Point's management isn't just guilty of financial ineptitude. Their mishandling of patients is legendary. Center Point is the Western Triad's dirty little secret.

Sorry, Strother, but you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Privatization isn't the problem. Inept and incompetent government bureaucrats who have never been held accountable are the problem. Putting this kind of service under the government umbrella in the first place is the problem. The fools at Center Point are only the inevitable result of the government trying to handle mental health care.