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« Cool | Main | "Respect" » July 5, 2005Why Some People Are Going to Die
Which means you really have to work hard to stifle a snort when you read this Tennessean headline: Governor’s early decisions may now beBredesen's "healthcare expertise" wasn't in healthcare at all. The guy got rich running HMOs. HMOs make money by collecting insurance premiums and then rationing care. They have this crazy notion that accounting clerks, rather than patients and their doctors, should decide what medical care or medicine is really necessary. The less medical care HMOs agree to pay for, the fatter the bottom line - and the fatter the wallet of the guy who founded the HMO and owns the bulk of the stock. Phil Bredesen is worth a few hundred million dollars today because tens of thousands of people who paid his HMOs for healthcare coverage got less than they paid for. Gov. Bredesen's track record on TennCare reform is one of three years of monumental incompetence and miscalculation. That's why people are going to die. [Hat tip: TGW] Posted in Bredesen Watch
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When former Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen ran for governor in 2002, his chief selling point was that, as a former healthcare company executive, he had the relevant managerial expertise to fix TennCare, the state's exorbitantly expensive, waste-riddled, out-of-control healthcare program for the poor, elderly, disabled and uninsurable sick.