Take a good look at your future America. Tennessee has the healthcare model you’re getting ready to have ramrodded down your throat:

State officials have talked about letting felons out of prison and capping benefits for TennCare recipients. They’ve brought up the possibility of cutting highway patrols in 13 counties and raising fees for a driver’s license for the first time in more than two decades.
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Seven years after a debate over a personal income tax split the state, Tennessee again faces a massive budget shortfall, one that could force political leaders to reduce spending by as much as $1.5 billion next year.

Of course, The Tennessean newspaper being The Tennessean, everything is passed through the prism of how can we use this manufactured crisis to our advantage by instituting an unconstitutional state income tax.

TennCare is southern-speak for HillaryCare and is the Dr. Jekyll to Obamacare’s Mr. Hyde.

The first thing we discovered is that private insurance companies dumped the sickest among us onto the taxpayers. The “pool” of the chronically ill, with pre-existing medical conditions, were shifted from private plans to TennCare. The past practice of apportioning out the chronically ill among private insurers was scrapped. The chronically ill paid high premiums, but most were glad to get coverage of any kind.

We also discovered that many businesses stopped offering health insurance and threw their employees onto the TennCare rolls. In many cases, the businesses had no choice. If you operated a motel and offered health insurance for employees and the motel across the road had employees on TennCare, how are you supposed to compete? The state is also home to many small manufacturing plants who have wage scales so low even the working poor with children were eligible to sign up for TennCare. The rolls exploded and soon one in five Tennesseans were enrolled in TennCare. Over a million people on TennCare in a state of five million residents.

And every deadbeat in driving distance of the eight states that touch us made Tennessee their new home. Or at least mailing address.

Doubling state tax receipts could never match the spending excesses of this government. In response, in their infinite wisdom, the state will now unleash the felons in your community, fire the cops, shut down the parks (because Nature was never available before you had several full time TWRA patrolmen at every location) and shutter the libraries.

A few years ago they instituted the state lottery to help in-state students get a college education and before it could even fund the first wave of students they started diverting the funds to CREATING a statewide pre-K option that would need to be funded every year after.

Make no mistake – this is a manufactured crisis to bring up the unconstitutional income tax debate (again) and if you think that throwing more money at a spending problem is going to make it better I have a slightly used socialized healthcare program I’d like to sell you.

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