A lot of people who deem themselves "kinder and gentler", with no regard whatsoever to the limits of taxpayers' abilities, will have a hissy fit at this proposal.
I see the word "expanded" and start getting the chills.
Social security pretty much destroyed. Medicare headed that way and Medicaid right in there contributing.
Just expanding welfare without the common honesty of calling it by its rightful name.
Will "citizens" who bear none of the cost support limitless expansion?
What do you think?
These people will be voting for Hillary! in 2008.
Many states are doing this,its a big mistake. IMO
If we weren't paying for illegals' health care, we'd have the money for this.
I've paid a lot of state taxes, but I needed the state plan for a year because I couldn't get access to any health care for a year.
Pubbies should make a push to fix the health system for low wage people, and some middle wage. It's not welfare, its the delivery system.
The system is getting ridiculous. $100,000/wk hospital bills? Goodness sakes.
My two cents.
I'm a Tennessee resident. Tenncare was adopted under Ned McWherter (sp?), the DemonRat governor who immediately preceded the RINO Sundquist, who departed in ignominy in 2002 after attempting to ram a state income tax down our throats and ended up being so bitterly, and justifiably, hated by the Republicans that he couldn't even attend a Republican rally. Tenncare is an expansion of the Medicaid program that all states are Federally required to maintain for medically indigent persons. It enables just about anybody who wants to to get on the medical dole. As a result, it quickly became a giant scam that was eating more and more of the state's total revenue stream with no sign of letting up.
Phil Bredesen (D), our current governor, decided there was no way he could effectively campaign for an income tax and was confronted with the need to cut Tenncare or all the rest of the state government. Hence, he proposed these cuts and has now been vindicated by the Sixth Circuit.
This is a terrific victory for Tennessee taxpayers and an equally big one for all taxpayers. For once the courts have allowed the political process to operate. It might also show that the efforts of we Freepers and other conservatives in criticizing the judiciary are beginning to have an impact. Certainly, it should encourage us to keep up our efforts, since the best way to clean up the imperial judiciary is to induce the judges to do the cleanup themselves.