The federal government has stigmatized psychopathic patients by placing barriers to how psychopathic patients should receive treatment. This is only done to mentally ill patients and not to other patients. The federal government does not provide support to states to care for or maintain their own psychiatric hospitals and hospital beds. This prevents most patients from receiving the care they need as there is no bed to keep them for a certain period and care for them adequately. According to Tim Murphy, a child psychologist, "Congress has set a double standard by effectively telling the country that the mentally ill are less deserving of a life of dignity than others." Additionally, the federal government has not established rules governing how the parity law should affect Medicaid, the insurance of most low-income people in the country. The Medicare law also discriminates against the mentally ill by limiting the number of days these patients can receive inpatient psychiatric care. “States cut $5 billion from mental health services from 2009 to 2010, along with 10 percent of psychiatric hospital beds and 40 percent of patients with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia who did not receive treatment in the last year". Mentally ill people don't get the help they need when they seek it; some don't ask. The failure to provide adequate care leaves those people more vulnerable, driving them to the city