With all the raging health care debate, not much attention has been paid to what governors think. We have 50 of them in this country. TN’s Governor Phil Bredesen opposes the bill even as TN 05 Representative Jim Cooper votes in favor of it in the House.
Gov. Phil Bredesen continues to earn praise from members of the National Federation of Independent Business for sounding the alarm on the impact that proposed health-care reform will have on Tennessee.
The governor fully understands our state’s finite resources cannot satisfy infinite wants. That’s why he reined in TennCare, and that’s why he’s taking a hard stand against HR 3962, which would further increase Medicaid costs, leaving Tennessee with a $1.3 billion tab.
Bredesen, like Romney as governor of Massachussetts, knows full well the financial drain “free” health care puts on the state as a whole. Other states are trumpeting the 10th Amendment as a way out.
As with most federal government mandated programs the individual states share in the costs of implementation. Is this a thing to do during an economic crisis? Yet, Congress proceeds in spite of the objections of the states’ governors.
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Yup, the governors have figured out that one way the Feds scam their numbers on the healthcare bill is to increase Medicaid mandates, the cost of which will fall on the states. What a sad, sorry mess this all is…