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ELI5:What's wrong with Mental Health Care in the U.S.? What are some potential ways to fix it?

Whenever there is some kind of mass shooting the topic of mental health reform always seems to come up. However, I never really seem to see any concrete ideas for reform, or explanations of what is wrong with the current system from politicians. It's seems like a lot of people just use it as a vague buzzword after every shooting. So, is it a legitimate issue? What can we do to fix it?
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I work in a jail where approximately half of the inmates have diagnosed psychological issues.  Many of which get sent of to state hospitals for mental treatment.  Most of the time we (as jail staff) wait for beds to become available, while jail medical staff treat said inmates.  

Many of these inmates need drugs that are not allowed to be administered in a custody setting.  Once a bed does become available for an inmate,  they get shipped off.  Some time later the inmates no longer display the serious psychological impairments they did while at the county level.  That inmate is sent back to jail to stand trial or be evaluated by the courts.  Time passes,  the inmate is back off the very medications which solved many of the psychological problems.  The inmate spirals back into the original psych issues which led to them being incarcerated.  The inmate is unfit for trial.  Sent back to state hospital.  Repeat. 

More institutions and staff.  More funding for said institutions and staff. More crisis intervention training for cops.  

Today it's the jails that are the psych hospitals.