Forgot to mention this yesterday, but it’s rather appalling to see Tennessee governor Phil bredesen hanging out in the New York Times counseling Democrats to “concentrate on a single issue: health care.”
When last we saw Bredesen, he was kicking nearly 200,000 folks off TennCare, the state’s health care program. He has, since then, sought to make amends with a stingier program providing care to the high-risk and working uninsured, but his accomplishments on the issue are a deterioration of health care in Tennessee, not an improvement. He’s shown little creativity, no interest in an innovative, universal state solution or comprehensive national solution, and no compunction about tossing poor and sick Tennesseans off the program if the bottom line beckons.
In other words, he’s got some nerve.
