Posted on 09/01/2018 12:14:25 PM PDT by OddLane
Phil Bredesen, the health insurance executive turned governor, had an antidote to contain the spiraling costs of the state’s Medicaid program – disenroll elderly, sick and disabled Tennesseans from TennCare.
According to Gordon Bonnyman, co-founder of the Tennessee Justice Center, two years into Bredesen’s first term as governor, “[a]pproximately 200,000 of [TennCare’s] costliest patients lost their coverage over a four-month period in late 2005.” Bonnyman characterized this group as the “sickest subgroup of the TennCare population.”
The TNReport calculated that by the time Bredesen left office in 2011, approximately 350,000 Tennesseans were cut from TennCare which included an estimated 100,000 people with disabilities.
At the same time that Tennesseans were losing their TennCare coverage, refugees being resettled in the state were being assisted by refugee resettlement contractors to enroll into TennCare...
(Excerpt) Read more at tennesseestar.com ...
Bredesen hasn’t been governor in 8 years.
He is not in office. He was governor before the current governor...Bill Haslem. But he is running for senator against Marsha Blackburn.
HE would be the 10th richest senator!
VOTE US REP MARSHA BLACKBURN, PRO-LIFE, PRO 2ND A, WARNED ABOUT THE STEALTH TRY AT UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE INCOME TAX.
GO MARSHA GO!
I imagine this is happening in other states as well
Care for ‘illegals’ too?
Tennessee elected a Democrat? Shoot, I moved to the wrong state.
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