Steve GannObamaCare = TennCare
July 18th 2009 23:55
How did the idea work?
Because of fraud and patient advocacy groups the amount of participants swelled to 25% of the population and costs consumed 38% of the total budget of the state. During this time Tennessee also became the number one state in prescription sales.
I saw many lives destroyed because of addictions to controlled substances. I would see many of our patients in pharmacy seeing two or three different doctors and getting covered narcotics from each one.
There were also thousands of dead people receiving benefits with many more out of state residents using PO boxes to illegally acquire coverage.
Because the plan was overseen by the government, there were tons of "equal access" lawsuits. Expensive treatments and medications that were excluded were forced upon the plan by activist judges.
Today's program is a much scaled down program that pretty much treats only the state's children and the poorest adults.
You would think that Washington would have learned a lesson from this debacle but earlier this year Obama appointed Nancy-Ann Min DeParle to the post of "health czar." DeParle was Tennessee's director of human services when the program was started in 1994. No wonder that many see similarities in the two programs.
It didn't work here and it will fail even worse on a national scale. You are not entitled to cradle to grave health insurance in the constitution, especially at the expense of other's hard earned money.
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Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Comment by sirron10
Minnesota has clinics in the super market for minor treatment at very low cost. There are a lot of working ideas out there short of a Federal take over of my insurance plan.