If hospitals force out 70,000 patients immediately, we must be ready for several thousand of them to be homeless on the street.

Several?

Great. 70,000 crazy and mentally unstable people let loose. Maybe those 70,000 beds can be filled with the people running the JGov.

Half of them will jump in front of trains.

Cost-cutting measure for J-government. But I am not sure if it will work after encouraging psychiatric hospitalization for all these years.

The original article is below for those who want to read the details.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-13/releasing-70-000-japanese-psychiatric-patients-shows-noda-s-debt-challenge.html

...to reduce the highest rate of psychiatric hospitalization among developed nations

Once again, the Japanese obsession to be number one, but not through legitmate means. Just a game played through statistics to achieve a goal. I'd love to know what other government departments do a similar thing here.

gee, we all know how well that worked out in the u.s. in the 80s.

As if there weren't enough nutters wandering around as it is....

sad...sad for those who need help and for the docs, nurses and people who actually care to have to let people go who are not ready...

This was done back in the eighties in Pennsylvania when they closed the Byberry Mental Institution in Winter no less.

Just like Thatcher's Community Care in the 90s, in the UK. Absolutely a bad idea.