{"id":79,"date":"2024-04-07T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2024-04-07T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T19:16:04","slug":"mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Mental Health Programs<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mental Health Services Act , Prop 63, &nbsp;taxes millionaires 1% on incomes above $1 million, &nbsp;to pay for mental health&nbsp; programs.&nbsp; (See LAT July 10, 2022) Since 2005 $29 billion has been generated. &nbsp;&nbsp;But there are increasing numbers of mentally ill and drug addicted people in the streets and encampments.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThings have not gotten better since this ballot measure passed, they have gotten much worse\u201d,&nbsp; said former Assemblyman Mike Gatto, a Democrat from Los Angeles.\u201d Prop 63 and the entire system has failed\u201d,&nbsp; he said.&nbsp; Lack of staffing who do not want&nbsp; to be exposed to covid and other diseases from people living on the streets, or want remote\/telemed jobs so they can work from home and not have to meet directly with patients.&nbsp; Los Angeles county reports it taking up to six months to get a mental health appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Health Programs The Mental Health Services Act , Prop 63, &nbsp;taxes millionaires 1% on incomes above $1 million, &nbsp;to pay for mental health&nbsp; programs.&nbsp; (See LAT July 10, 2022) Since 2005 $29 billion has been generated. &nbsp;&nbsp;But there are increasing numbers of mentally ill and drug addicted people in the streets and encampments.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-what-i-am-thinking-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}