Folks with private ins who have premature babies have those babies automatically enrolled in TennCare. When you report some one has died who is on TennCare.......a year later they are still on TennCare.
One brain surgeon spent 11 hours operating on a patient and he got paid a whopping $150.00 for his services.
Hospitals in the state are squalling they are going bankrupt, docs are bailing because they aren't being paid for their services. It takes 6 months or more to get reimbursed at a small fraction of what your services are worth.
BUT the Dems want to implement this Nationwide. If TN can't afford it to cover only 25% of our population how can the Nation afford it for ALL the nation, plus the illegals?