Manufacturing Madness for MoneyHow Quebec turned orphans into patients for profit.

From the show

When Rewards Backfire

This is how a financial incentive created a generation of victims. In mid-20th century Quebec, the government offered larger subsidies for psychiatric patients than for orphans. This led to thousands of healthy children being deliberately misdiagnosed with mental illnesses and moved to asylums, where they faced horrific abuse and neglect. Their story reveals how systemic problems can be manufactured for financial gain.