The announced end of a nearly 200-day strike by Kaiser Permanente mental health care workers in Southern California will surely come as a relief to many of those employees. Some 2,400 of them — therapists, psychologists, social workers and others — walked off their jobs last October.
What the strike’s conclusion won’t do, for Kaiser patients, is radically change a mental health care system that is so dysfunctional, it’s been the subject of multiple fines and citations by the state — yet shows almost no sign of improving.
