State mulls mental health fix: Privatizing
Source: By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun (NV), Wed, Jun 4, 2008
With Nevada facing a potential 14 percent budget cut, the state is considering the possibility of turning all or part of its mental health system over to private companies to reduce costs. Gov. Jim Gibbons and Mike Willden, director of the state Health and Human Services Department, have met with companies possibly interested in running the system.