Lessons from Tenncare

Real Clear Politics ^ | 07/22/2009 | Marsha Blackburn

[fiscon1]

Tennessee was home to a failed attempt at universal single payer care, and has lessons to teach a President who has promised that in pursuing his goal of universal health care, he will learn from the policy failures of the past. In 1994 Tennessee implemented managed care in its Medicaid program, creating a system known as TennCare. The objective was to use the anticipated savings from Medicaid to fund and expand coverage for children and the uninsured. The result was a program that nearly bankrupted the state, reduced the quality of care, and collapsed under its own weight.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Rats never learn. If they could learn, they wouldn’t still be trying to impose socialism on us.

[PowerPro]

Great article.

Credit also goes to my Congressman Phil Roe.

This is a must read for anyone wanting to know what “universal health care” is like in the real world.

[Straight Vermonter]

When debating “free” health care I like to use the analogy of an open bar. I like to ask the person I am debating if they think people drink more or less when there is an open bar. Then I like to ask why they think the use of medical care would not grow rapidly when it is made free.

The story of TennCare seems to demonstrate my point.

[FlyingFish]

communism, like TennCare has failed, too. Does this stop them from trying it again, but only on a larger scale? Taking over health care is the single best strategy for the socialists...it is the single largest private sector in terms of number of employees and it creates a critical dependency of the masses on the Gov’t.

[Eagle Eye]

It only failed because it wasn’t done on a big enough scale.

Isn’t that what socialists always believe?

[WOBBLY BOB]

no gubermint program is ever a failure, it’s just “underfunded”.

ask any libtard.