[SmithL]

thousands of people being cut from TennCare as part of Gov. Phil Bredesen's reform plan will loose their pharmacy benefits on Monday

loose?

Lucas L. Johnson II and his editors at the AP are idiots.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

The 25-year-old said she takes 18 drugs a month after having a double lung transplant and is afraid what will happen if the state limits her medication.

I'm not an MD or a pharmacologist - but I have to wonder what the odds are of being able to randomly select 18 drugs that will not have an incredibly serious interaction. Hell, you might suffer gelatin toxicity.

An article like this only scratches the surface - I'd like to see some statistics - for the distribution of payments per capita. Granted that there are some incredibly sick people in the world - and they have some astronomical multiple of the average annual expenditure - but I'd still like to see what it is. And the general problem with TennCare and programs like it (BadgerCare, PeachCare, etc.) is that - as typically administered - the demand for services is some healthy multiple of funding available.