New York's answer to the homeless problem is to throw them in jail, and considering many suffer from severe mental illness, this is really cruel and inhumane.
Yeah. If you have a family history of mental illness and live in America, make sure you've got a big support network of friends and family, in case you develop a mental illness. That would probably be more useful than healthcare coverage.
In America anyway where having health-care is tied to employment and employment can be difficult to maintain when you're increasingly mentally ill.
Somewhere more civilized it's not as much a problem to see a psychiatrist, the cost is fully covered. If there's medication and you can't afford it there's ways of getting that covered too.
It's much better to have people "in the system" where they're receiving disability support, subsidized housing, and medical care than to just turf them on the street or treat them as profit centers in private prisons.
So they're swept under the rug. It's absurd.