July 01, 2004

I hope so

"Goodbye Tenncare?" says the headline in the Nashville City Paper today.

Several state legislators said Wednesday they’re ready to pull the plug on TennCare and go back to the federal Medicaid program if court action against the state continues.

“I know this bill [to revert to Medicaid] would pass the Senate Commerce Committee today — unanimously," Cooper said. “You get tired when the advocates run to the courthouse and don’t even give us the opportunity to at least try."

Yes...ladies and gentlemen...sit back and watch TennCare recipients sue themselves out of being covered. They don't realize that they would be doing the entire state an enormous favor.

Of course, the state would only revert back to Medicaid (which is still our tax money...just on a Federal level), but I still haven't seen any legislators out there saying that it's not the job of the government to provide healthcare in the first place.

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Please please please let TennCare be dead.

The only one to say something like it was Bredesen when he was mayor. That's why Metro is selling off its interests in the hospitals. Metro General is a partnership between Meharry and Vanderbilt.

Bordeux is slowly being taken over by Vanderbilt.

Posted by: Pink Kitty at July 8, 2004 09:08 PM