This editorial will appear in Sunday’s print edition.
People with untreated mental illnesses don’t fund political campaigns or employ powerful lobbyists. It was easy for Washington and other states to skimp on their care after the economy went south five years ago.
It’s taken a whack with a two-by-four – an onslaught of preventable assaults and murders – to persuade some lawmakers that psychiatric care for the poor is not a luxury that can be dropped in hard times.
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was the catalyst. The killer may or may not have suffered from a psychosis, …
