Well, here's a bit of nice time: Tennessee has decided to opt in to the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid after all. Of course Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is being very careful to depict the move as a victory over the oppressive federal government: it's a pilot plan for a program called "Insure Tennessee," and it's only set to run two years. No way is this an embrace of the Big Government socialist takeover of healthcare. Sure, it's going to use federal and state funds to provide coverage for healthcare for low-income Tennesseans, but it's completely different from Medicaid expansion:
Meh, like most of the red-state NobamaCare plans, it's a watered down version of an already anemic stab at expanded health care coverage (actual Obamacare). BUT the important thing here as in all the poor white-trash states is that (hopefully) once people get a taste of having access to care, the idiots will stop voting in goose-step with the Republicans and see the value of universal health care.
We've always been at war with East Asia.
I&#039;m <em>so</em> glad we&#039;ve got all that cleared up.
The only &quot;unique Tennessee solution&quot; I care for comes in a square bottle with a black label.
Let&#039;s call it &quot;Nobamacare.&quot; No chance of confusion there.
Meh, like most of the red-state NobamaCare plans, it&#039;s a watered down version of an already anemic stab at expanded health care coverage (actual Obamacare). BUT the important thing here as in all the poor white-trash states is that (hopefully) once people get a taste of having access to care, the idiots will stop voting in goose-step with the Republicans and see the value of universal health care.
Or so I can dream.
That&#039;s all they need to cover, mainly.
They&#039;ll need a catchy name like Obama Care to sell this to the hicks I mean Tennesseans.
Meth Care? Ham Biscuit Care? Disease Be Gone? Teeth R Us? Skoal Bandit Care?
That train has left the station.
Pfft, you people would be LUCKY to be Canadian in your swimsuit areas. We&#039;re a hardy and robust people!