Why Does Governor Bredesen Hate Medicaid?

The Governor’s efforts to dismantle the state’s expanded Medicaid Program, TennCare, can be better understood if we remember his very disturbing views on Medicaid:

"Let's scrap the old, inefficient version of Medicaid that's led us to spend more and more of our finite resources on a system that never yielded the kind of public health results we'd hoped for." --Governor Phil Bredesen

"The way in which Medicaid pays for services has more in common with a socialist economy than the common-sense economic and business principles that do such a good job allocating resources efficiently in other parts of our American life." --Governor Phil Bredesen


See also: Values Challenged Governor Bredesen