Now that the elections are over
TennCare, Tennessee’s doomed from the start socialized healthcare scheme, is back in the headlines:
State lawmakers may call an emergency meeting as early as this week to review Governor Bredesen’s suggestion to scrap the TennCare health program.
The TennCare Oversight Committee wants to study the plan.
Bredesen said last week that he will decide this month whether to cut nearly 400,000 TennCare enrollees from the insurance program.
Doing so would effectively return TennCare to a basic Medicaid program.
Those cut from the TennCare rolls would be forced to pay for health care services on their own
TennCare was to serve about 400,000 people at the start. Now it serves 25% of the state population. Also, it is riddled with bureacratic bungling and fraud (some people in the Ukraine are on it!). The calls from local politicos will soon be that they need an income tax to save it.
November 8th, 2004 at 12:45 pm
i thought they have already called for an income tax.
I heard the gov. talking about his plan, it sounded like an expansion. Then i read this, and I like the idea.
I keep waiting for the Gov to do somthing crazy left, but so far it sounds like he has done an great job.
Are their any bad points about Gov. Bredesen?
November 8th, 2004 at 12:48 pm
I like bredesen. I voted for him and likely will again, particularly if the Rs run some loser like hilleary again.
November 8th, 2004 at 7:09 pm
A lot of people on tenncare get oxycontin, which they then shoot up and sell and blah blah blah and probation officers violate their probation and put them in jail and blah blah blah but they get out and have probation officers again blah blah blah and then they get have to get disability for their problems and they get hepatitis C and its tenncare to the rescue again blah blah blah. its a government handout circle jerk. i am a frigging professional without health insurance and tenncare keeps half of the state in drugs. pisses me off.
November 8th, 2004 at 10:30 pm
What I enjoy is how people are quick to point out how various solutions to the health care crisis (like TennCare) are bad. Ask them to suggest a better idea, or even to explain why there isn’t a health care crisis, and they get awfully quiet.
November 8th, 2004 at 10:33 pm
And i enjoy how people think that none is better than bad but offer no way to, you know, improve it either ๐
November 9th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
Actually, I think you mean “bad is better than none,” at least if you’re trying to describe my view. ๐ And tighter auditing would be a good start for improvement, to eliminate the fraud.