Let's Have a Task Force!

I'm going to do a little problem solving here. In the Washington Post yesterday in Virginia Doesn't Need Another Mental Health Task Force,  Pete Earley writes:Virginians should be embarrassed and angry that a newly appointed state mental health task force convened Tuesday in Richmond. It is the 16th task force asked to investigate the state’s mental health system. If you click through to hit the link, you'll note that this 16th task force on mental health has 36 members.  Politicians love task forces, it's a way to look like something is "being done" without actually doing anything.  So now 36 people, presumably on someone's payroll, have to coordinate their time to be at these meeting, write reports, and in this case, reinvent the wheel.I'll point out two other quotes from Mr. Earley's commentary, and then I'm offering my suggestions on how to fix the problem to the State of Virginia at no cost, here on my free blog, and all 36 of those people can go home and spend quality time with their families.First:Virginia’s inspector general warned in a May 2011 report that 200 people were turned away from hospitals during one 12-month period because of a lack of beds, even though the patients were considered a danger to themselves or others. Second:Virginians must look at the big picture. After the Virginia Tech shootings, our task force lowered the criteria for involuntarily committing someone into a hospital. While a positive step, this has proved ineffect...
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