Court considers cost of mental health treatment

There was much more to it than trying to get a check for $5,588 – and 56 cents. Mental illness provided the proverbial “elephant in the room” last week at a hearing in Putnam County Superior Court. Mental health issues have been no strangers to national stories in the past few years, being cited as an element in several headline-making attacks – the guy in Maine who shot 18 people, for example;…