You conveniently omitted this quote:

"I don't want to say that his not getting his TennCare medications caused him to die," Mire said. "I am not saying that at all. He died because he had terrible heart and liver disease."

Just the facts, please, Bill.

I hate to say this Bill, but it seems like you're just ramping up the rhetoric here.

I don't agree with the way the Gov. is handling the situation either. If it were me, I would have dumped Tenncare altogether and gone back to our pre-Tenncare set-up. Everybody seemed to be doing OK on that program. And if not, they found alternatives.

What killed this guy was the lazy welfare mentality he developed from being on a generous social program.

If I know I need to have a certain medication or I'll die, I damn well won't wait around for a phone call I might not get!!! I'd go out and try to find an alternative.

After all is said and done, we are our own keepers. Its his own fault he died, not Phil's.

I volunteer at a clinic two days a week trying to help people who have been kicked off TennCare.

The next to die? A lady with colon cancer - doubled up with pain and no hope. We have tried everything - no help. Sent her to emergency room - a shot of morphine and sent home. What did we do? Sent her home - to die I suppose.

I know a lot of nutso's on the far right and my Libertarian friends say let her die - she did not plan good enough! Seeing this pain and suffering twice a week has took a toll on me and I'm about tired of these self centered people. May the same thing happen to them one day. They do not know the future and the way we are going in this country their IRA's, long term care, etc will not be worth the paper it is written on. If they are storing precious metals the bad boys will take that. I'll probably see them in the same ditch dying with me.

It is deeply disappointing to see someone who poses as providing truth doing selective reporting out of selectively done story. Bill, you have let your animosity for Bredesen to take over your judgement. No different than Tim Chavez, you and he both for years railed against TennCare and the spending practices of the previous administration. Now you advocate for spending reserves, one time funding, whatever it takes. Your lack of consistency is all too obvious.

In the past I have indeed called for cancelling TennCare, but not in a vacuum. TennCare has always been a fraud-riddled, poorly-designed money-wasting program. But Tennessee needs a good healthcare program for its poor and low-income elderly/disabled population. Bredesen promised to reform TennCare, but he hasn't done it. Instead, he's just taken a meat-axe to it.

Except in Tennessee that plan to which you refer is called Medicaid.