So what’s actually being argued here is that keeping psychiatric patients in emergency rooms is an illegal seizure of the hospital’s resources. Nothing to do with quality of patient care or outcomes, just businesses complaining about costs.

The psychiatric care system in NH isn’t even a joke it’s unsupported to the point of cruelty and malice, but what’s finally going to wiggle the system a little bit is hospitals taking the most business-oriented PR-blind stance to get more money from the state.