http://www.mygovcost.org/2013/08/26/government-mental-case/ Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 http://www.mygovcost.org/2013/08/26/government-mental-case/comment-page-1/#comment-146147 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:38:15 +0000 http://www.mygovcost.org/?p=8304#comment-146147 […] As we noted in 2013, when Prop 63 had brought in $8 billion, California’s state auditor could not account for how the money was spent. The San Jose Mercury News found that the state had fewer psychiatric hospital beds, fewer doctors treating patients, fewer clinics across the state and that in the previous year 750,000 Californians had failed to receive mental health treatment they needed. The Sacramento Bee wondered if the money had been “shoved down a rat hole,” and there is something to that. Steinberg is a former attorney for the California State Employees Association. State employees got their Prop 63 money and the rest was squandered on yoga, horseback riding, gardening, iPads, public relations videos and such. […]

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