Two-Tiered Mental Health System: Has California's Mental Health System Become One Of Haves & Have-Nots? Seven years after voters went to the polls saying they were tired of substandard community mental-health care, there is tarnish on the promise of Proposition 63. On one side of the ledger is $7 billion in revenue for new programs, serving previously unserved clients. On the other side is a core mental-health system that is crumbling. The evidence of this includes recent killings of mentally ill persons by police while county clinics and crisis units are being . . .