State Medicaid

Tennessee governor recommends overhaul of Medicaid program

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, March 3rd, 2005

The nation's Medicaid program will fail unless lawmakers make fundamental changes to keep it financially solvent, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen said February 8, 2005, at a meeting of policymakers studying problems with healthcare.

Bredesen, locked in a legal and political fight to overhaul a state healthcare system that offers supplements Medicaid, said changes to the current system should include some payment by the patient every time they receive care, coverage of the most important needs first and coverage only of treatments that work.

"Our hearts are there," Bredesen said. "What I want to say today is our heads need to get there, too."

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2005-03-03)

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