In Edmonton, a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry has quietly reframed a long-standing assumption in public health: that caring for the most vulnerable young people is necessarily the most expensive path. Researchers at McGill University found that ACCESS Open Minds, a pan-Canadian program relocating youth mental health care from hospitals into communities, saved ten dollars for every dollar invested — and did so precisely by serving those with the greatest need. The finding invites a deeper question about how societies define efficiency, and whether the instinct to protect budgets by tr