You claim that a majority of Congressional Republicans support fully socialized medicine.
You have not proven this by referencing a state governor's programs - especially since Sundquist's program does not include fully socialized medicine. I'm not sure you understand what the term means.
Fully socialized medicine is this: the government owns or directly supervises all hospitals, all healthcare professionals are direct employees of the government, all medical insurance for every citizen is provided by the government and all medical decisions for every citizen must be approved by the government.
If more than half the GOP supported such measures, a bill providing for them would already have been passed by the House with a veto-overriding 70%.
Why hasn't it?
Guess who else shilled for that program? Fred Thompson, Bill Frist, and Lamar Alexander. Alexander even shilled for a state income tax to fund it.
Actually the program was originally pushed by Former governor New WcWherter, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton. Tennessee was to be the test for Hillary Care and the states Medicaid system was expanded greatly to do this. But only before the Medicaid system was purposefully made to fail.
Now just follow me on this. For this program to continue the two U.S. Senators and governor, state lawmakers etc had to get yearly waiver from the U.S. Department of Health Care and Fiance. The senators who did this? Fred Thompson, Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander and now likely Bob Corker. It isn't just a state matter it is federal dollars.
Sundquist was elected when McWherter was term limited out. IIRC Tenn Care began in McWherters last year. Then comes Sundquist-R who refused to address rampant fraud. The state was literally blackmailed into paying up to HMO's who were here today gone tomorrow some of which had former state officials as their CEO's.
Tenn Care was and is in effect a middle man to the HMO's to distribute the money. There is zero accountability for these funds which violates the state and U.S. Constitution. But who is gonna stand up to it when both parties shill for it? It was fraud with federal dollars and no one stood up to it and called it what it was.
Bush reminds me of Sundquist alot. He was the DEMs best man in office and made the Conservatives task an almost impossibility as well. The party is still split in my state with one state senator who recently became an Independent.
Eaglet did I miss anything on TennCare and it's not so humble operations? I didn't mention doctors were being blackmailed either by big name insurance.