So, here in Tennessee, the great expirement in expanded Medicare is crumbling. TennCare, once thought to be the model for a national health care system, a la HillaryCare, is not working. Those of use who have worked within this system for years have known, almost from the very beginning, that it wasn’t working. Now Governor Bredesen is trimming the system and removing people from the TennCare rolls. How will these people get care? Bredesen says, “Use the health departments.”
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