Not a good time to need serious mental-health care

Paul Levy reports that, effective Wednesday, state mental-health hospitals will no longer accept new patients for treatment, due to those budget cuts Gov. Romney made. Levy, who runs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, writes:

... This is deeply troubling. Please understand that the state's funding for mental health programs was in no way overly generous before these cuts. We and others had already seen an overflow of violently disturbed patients from state facilities into our own hospitals, patients who were putting themselves, other patients, and caregivers in physical danger. ...