In 1963, Congress approved the Community Mental Health Centers Act, which outlined plans to release the mentally ill from institutions, incorporate these individuals into their communities, and provide outpatient treatment. Leading associations of mental health professionals overwhelmingly applauded these goals and approved of these plans because, the experts said, the treatment rather than the institutional environment was the crucial element for the welfare of these patients. Within twenty years, state authorities succeeded in discharging 95% of these patients from institutional care. In 1983, however, executives from these same professional associations said that the plight of the mentally ill was worse than ever. Which if the following, if true, best resolves the paradox in the above passage?
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AMore people were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders in 1983 than in 1963
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BMany mental health professionals believe that if their peers had administered the project rather than the state authorities, the results would have been better
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CThe state budget allocation for services to the mentally ill has not increased faster than the rate of inflation
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DCongress agreed to fund these outpatient services, provided that the money come from cuts in other domestic programs; these cuts, however, never materialized
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EMany of the released patients had, at some time, been addicted to illegal narcotics
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正确答案: D