[GailA]

The TennCare program is SO GREAT it's about to BANKRUPT the State. They have dead people on the rolls, state employees, out of staters, illegals, and prison inmates on the rolls of Tenncare. NONE of which qualify for it. Besides the usual fraud, waste and abuse. They can't remove ONE person from the rolls. New born's who are low birth weight are automatically enrolled in TennCare REGARDLESS of their parents having PRIVATE insurance.

Employers have been allowed to DUMP their insurance programs in favor of using TennCare.

This BEAST has DOUBLED in cost to the tax serfs in less than 7 years.

Taxquist has set aside $10M for MORE ENROLLMENT in TennCare in this new budget. And over $120M in NEW FUNDING.

[07055]

The goal was to use private managed care organizations, or MCOs, to deliver health care to the Medicaid population for less money. The state intended to use the savings to expand coverage to the uninsured.

But there is no savings.

So, they should eliminate the coverage for the uninsured.

They can't even prove that all of the money they have spent on the uninsured has improved public health whatsoever.

TennCare recipients use their coverage to bring babies to the Emergency Room in ambulances for treatment of diaper rash.

And we pick up the tab----and are called "heartless" because we don't want to pay 4% of every dollar we earn to continue this travesty.

[Iowa Granny]

Hillary-Lite Health Care. And the good citizens of Tenn. wonder why the state's general fund is bone dry.

Well, DUH!!

[Lancey Howard]

"Back then I used to use the example that every headache patient does not need a neurosurgeon - but that's what they got," he said

Good analogy. Know why? Because it points up how much the scumbag lawyers fit into the equation.
But the spineless-worm political class will simply never reign in these "jackpot justice" scumbags.

[Lancey Howard]

"(TennCare) was created as the Clinton administration was working on universal health care...."

And Tennessee shows precisely what "HillaryCare" could have done to the nation.
Whew....!

[philomath]

state officials intend to make good on at least a portion the debts

That's nice of them. Let me guess what portion...

Thousands of people will be cut off the TennCare program and local governments will be left to pick up the tab for these people's health care expenses

Not exactly, festus. The already financially destitute hospitals, drained by TennCare, and the ER/consulting docs and staff who will not refuse anyone will take the brunt of this. Since he has a nice Nashville private hopital for his care, why should a few Level I hospitals going under bother him???

[Lancey Howard]

....the $5.8 billion program for 1.4 million poor and uninsured people.

That's over $4,100 per "poor and uninsured" person. Just for INSURANCE!
Whether they ever see a doctor or don't!

Is the $5.8 Billion dollar figure the annual cost? (Gulp!)

[Free the USA]

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