California Politics.

Cuts in the state's mental health care to the poor is nothing more than cynicism.

It's typical of the attitude of politicians, who tend to be well-to-do and tend to represent those interests over everybody else.

That's why you get comments like John Edwards' probably fatal comments about his health care plan basically having to be "earned" by forcing participants to have "preventive care." However, if people in his social class get sick, they can readily buy the "best" of care. If people in his social class have mental problems or drug abuse problems, they can check into elite hospitals or check into the Betty Ford Clinic.

Not so everybody else.

For the record, here is the 2006 report from the National Alliance for Mental Illness, mentioned in the article linked above.

My state, Nevada, not surprisingly has a D-.