[Venerable Bede]

Good news for them, bad news for all the taxpayers in Tennessee. Bredesen and the Legislature are going to point to lack of funding for "needy" people as a reason to force an income tax in the state.

Limitations should have been imposed on TennCare - ie. generic-only prescriptions when availible and limits on doctor visits - along with modest cutting of patients eligible for other coverage. I'm no TC expert, but it seems even a UT MBA could have fixed the program by now.

I'm tired of paying for someone else's problems.

[Mamzelle]

re: ie. generic-only prescriptions when availible and limits on doctor visits )))

It isn't the doctor visits. It's the hospitalization--the expensive infrastructure of technicians, administration, plant, equiptment--just your average hospital is starting to be like NASA to run!

I'd love to be able to pay for doc visits, and not have to pay for hospitalization!

Yet, whenever there is comment on the crisis in paying for health care, everyone wants to focus on the hundred bucks they pay for a doc visit--

[Sonny M]

Bredesen and the Legislature are going to point to lack of funding for "needy" people as a reason to force an income tax in the state.

I got the inpression that the Legislature is trying to bring in the income tax and the only roadblock was Bredesen.

I know he fought his party over the his opposition to an income tax.

Then again, I think he is also looking to possibly run for President (he would never win a dem primary, hell, there are way to many Freepers who like him).