Dolemite wrote:
] Well, I'm trying to figure out where the link between
] Bredesen, a Democrat, and the Republicans is.

See Zell Miller. Southern Democrat is no longer what it used to be. Many of them are switching party affiliation or walking as far right as possible without doing so, in order to retain support from the south which is now very much influenced by right wing talk radio. The election did create a shift in power that allowed him to take more radical actions. This went down just after the election for a reason.

] That's why he's been trying to save TennCare. Right now,
] 430,000 people in Tennessee are able to at least get some form
] of insurance that they normally wouldn't be able to. However,
] the system as it exists today is growing at such a rate that
] it will bankrupt the state in literally just a few years.

The two questions worth asking are:
A. While I agree that there is no excuse for the number of drugs people are on to be, on average, higher then in the rest of the country, its obvious that the general problem here is the massive recent increase in general healthcare costs and not these specifics. All healthcare programs are getting more expensive.
B. Tennessee is the only state in the nation with a sales tax and no supplemental source of income (like income tax, oil, or gambling.) Its not going to be sustainable no matter what they do. They can slice programs until they are blue in the face and they are going to remain bankrupt. You are the only state that does things that way for a reason, and its not because you know something no one else does. Now, ask me what I think of the national "fair tax" proposal.

RE: YEAH FU@#$ING REPUBLICANS!!@!@!@!#$