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South Carolina psychiatric patient spent 38 days in ER

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There has to be a better way, right? Budget cuts for both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care have forces many of these patients into hospital emergency rooms who are stretched thin enough as is. Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act alleviate or exacerbate the problem?