With the health care system in obvious crisis, such mergers and treatment cancellations are egregious symptoms. The decision makers who allow this are abrogating their responsibilities and violating the public trust. Not allowing a student to attend school because they have a drug conviction is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. I thought that was the great thing about being born in America.
People make mistakes.
We are only human. People who want to better themselves so that they can make a better living should be allowed to do so for a better America. The problem of misused diagnoses and other unethical practices to hospitalize and otherwise mistreat gay adolescents is nationally pervasive. Some 50,000 teens are locked up every year for being gay, and 300,000 or so are locked up for not adhering to whatever constitutes a heterosexual teen ideal. Money, of course, feeds the problem.