Here in Tennessee, the health care system in place had to shrink or go bankrupt. The issue has made the news here and I watched with interest. I watched one of the people who is going to lose her coverage. She said that "I still need my meds and someone is going to pay for them." She was refereing to how the local governments and hospitals will be forced to pick up the costs. I found that statement to be quite cocky in this land of the free.
Here is an article describing the Tenncare program
TennCare: What Will Change?
While most TennCare enrollees will keep their health coverage, Governor Phil Bredesen is trying to comfort the more than 300,000 people he says will be cut from the program.
The governor made the announcement in special coverage Volunteer TV News carried live at 3:00 Eastern time.
Governor Bredesen says this is not what he envisioned when he promised to fix TennCare, but with what he calls no other choice, hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans are about to left with no health coverage, Volunteer TV’s Lee Merrit reports.
"I'm deeply sorry, but I want you to know I’ve done my best, and I am totally committed to fight for you and the TennCare program in the months and years ahead," says Gov. Phil Bredesen, (D) Tennessee.
Even though Governor Phil Bredesen comes just one step short of dissolving TennCare, he knows the cuts he's making are drastic.
323,000 -- Which is nearly 25 percent of the 1.3 million TennCare enrollees currently covered by the state, are going to losing their health insurance...
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