in 1963, President Kennedy signed a National Mental Health Law that authorized Congress to spend up to $3 billion in the coming decades to construct a national network of community mental health centers, and then notes on the next page that Congress never got around to funding or financing community mental health centers.
Braley highlights the failure to fund mental health centers despite legislative authorization.
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