Govt health care will ration counseling

In England, our pattern for national health care that is absolutely crashingly expensive and going under, the next thing they are cutting is treatment for schizophrenics. Now there's a pleasant thought: schizophrenics running the streets, under government auspices.

The suggested cuts of 5 per cent are equivalent to a spending reduction of an extra £50 million across the 40 Mental Health Foundation Trusts in England, according to Rethink, the mental health charity.

It warned that mental health services were considered a “soft target” for cuts, and that up to 500,000 patients with illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder could suffer if clinics and day centres closed or staff posts were lost.