ObamaCare follows in the frightening footsteps of TennCare

From Edward Lee Pitts in World...

Democrats say that [the health care] plan will insure 32 million additional Americans while reducing the deficit by $143 billion dollars over the next decade. But all of this is feeling an awful lot like 1994 for Tennesseans...Sixteen years ago, Tennessee launched TennCare—an ambitious Medicaid expansion offering coverage to more of those who couldn't afford insurance or had been denied coverage...

But TennCare's promise soon unraveled. In less than a decade, it almost bankrupted the state. Current Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, called the program a "disaster"...

That history seems to have been lost on the current designers of our new healthcare landscape—and that includes Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Obama's healthcare czar, who cut her reform teeth working as Health Services Commissioner for Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter, the father of TennCare....