12-06-2004, 11:05 AM
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Serenity Now
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Survivor Island
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Anyone Familar With This?
- HillaryCare in Tennessee
The disaster that might have been for the entire country.
Monday, December 6, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
We think it was Justice Brandeis who said the states should be laboratories for reform. Regarding health care, Tennessee tried a decade ago and the price is now coming due. Hillary Rodham Clinton should call her pollster if she plans on carrying the state in 2008.
In 1994, Tennessee passed what was then a very hot New Democrat idea--call it government managed care--a version of the reform the former first lady was also pitching nationwide. TennCare promised the impossible dream of politicians everywhere: Lower health-care costs while covering more of the "uninsured." They got the impossible, all right. After 10 years of mismanagement and lawsuits, TennCare now eats up one-third of the state's entire budget and is growing fast. Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, is preparing to pull the plug and return the state to the less lunatic subsidies of Medicaid.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editor...l?id=110005987 |
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