Would be better without the unbalanced off-topic few paras at the beginning. Sure, our government (and not just ours) leapt on it as a way of saving money, but that didn't mean that what preceded it (i.e. at worst, lifetime institutionalization for anyone diagnosed with a serious mental health condition, regardless of whether or not they could live an independent life the vast majority of the time) was better. I'm also troubled by the phrase "violently ill"; if that's meant in the sense of "floridly ill", then those people will almost certainly be treated in MH units, sooner or later, depending on who they have around them that cares about them. If meant in the sense of "psychotic and violent", well, that's perpetuating an unrepresentative stereotype - people with MH conditions are more likely to be the /victims/ of violence!