Mental Health Services and MHSA

I am a 50 something person who is frustrated by local and state politics around healthcare - especially mental health care. California's Mental Health Services Act plan while well-intended leaves us all (families, clients, providers and even county employees) helpless and angry for the promise it intended and the minimal delivery it has provided for those who are sick with a mental illness. I use the word "sick" because I am tired of political correctness negating the facts that mental illness is an illness like many others. When we dance around the language, those who lack the information and education about specific mental illness can continue their dialogue of stigma and discrimination towards sufferers. (And yes, I do think many - not all of the people with thess illnesses are suffering.)
So has the MHSA delivered at all? Like a politician I will answer yes and no from my experience. Some have been helped with support services and they report their lives have been changed, but for many who have been abandoned because they no longer fit the "criteria", their lives have been changed for the worst.
Share your experiences - maybe we can contribute to righting something that seems to have gone very wrong.