Question: How is the quality of healthcare over there and how much does the average Tennessean pay a year?
As far as I’m concerned it’s great. I have good retiree healthcare from P&G but my premiums are low and so is my deductible.
We have several extremely good hospitals. We have Vanderbilt (Nashville), University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Erlanger, Memorial (Chattanooga) and several others. Don’t believe everything you hear about healthcare being bad in the South. There are also medical vans that set up in different places that offer the poor medical care. Also close-by is the Emory University Hospital of Atlanta GA.
Our cost of living is also a fraction of what it is in liberal states AND we are very gun friendly with open carry. :-) We are a right-to-work state.
Our only really bad spot is Memphis but not because of any of the above. Memphis is our Chicago and Baltimore. There is a lot of crime in the inner city of Memphis, much more than in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. There are a lot of small towns in TN with small town values.