In trying to make sense of the mental health crisis in New York, the standard question to ask is: What’s this city’s excuse?
The state Medicaid program is the most expensive in the nation and New York City’s metro area boasts the densest concentration of psychiatrists of any in the US. Most counties don’t even have one psychiatrist. And yet, untreated mental illness is, if anything, even more of a scandal here than elsewhere.
Kendra’s Law is the rare example of where New York does something right. This court-ordered supervised outpatient treatment program has stabilized thousands of the kind of mentally ill individuals so often caught up in street mayhem these days.
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Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
This piece originally appeared in New York Post