National Southern Christian Leadership Conference Joins Struggle to Save TennCare

The National Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is joining the struggle to stop Governor Bredesen's efforts to take the axe to health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of the sick, disabled, elderly and poor.

"The National Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will be joining the ongoing efforts in Tennessee to reinstate the TennCare cuts.

As a Coalition we are demanding for Governor Bredesen to respond to the Declaration to Save Lives. The Declaration was initially delivered to the Governor’s office April 8th, 2005. Despite the Governor’s claims of keeping lines of communications open concerning TennCare, he has yet to respond to any of the nine recommendations in the Declaration. The recommendations within the Declaration would have saved the state of Tennessee $649 million dollars and would have allowed thousands of Tennesseans to keep their TennCare coverage."

Tip of the hat to Pith in the Wind.


For more on the Declaration to Save Lives and it's delivery to Governor Bredesen, see: Black Churches Rise Up Against TN Governor. .