HillaryCare in Tennessee sounds a lot like Canadian health care, only their experiment in state-run health care is only costing Tennessee a third of their entire state budget each year, while it costs most provinces 40 percent or even more of their annual provincial budgets—plus tens of billions in cash from the feds in Canada—each year.
It might be worthwhile calling us next time a state wants to try that state-run anything, thing. Or just pick up a copy of Why The Soviet Union Collapsed for Dummies.
The disaster that might have been for the entire country.
We think it was Justice Brandeis who said the states should be laboratories for reform. Regarding health care, Tennessee tried a decade ago and the price is now coming due. Hillary Rodham Clinton should call her pollster if she plans on carrying the state in 2008.
In 1994, Tennessee passed what was then a very hot New Democrat idea—call it government managed care—a version of the reform the former first lady was also pitching nationwide. TennCare promised the impossible dream of politicians everywhere: Lower health-care costs while covering more of the “uninsured.” They got the impossible, all right. After 10 years of mismanagement and lawsuits, TennCare now eats up one-third of the state’s entire budget and is growing fast. Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, is preparing to pull the plug and return the state to the less lunatic subsidies of Medicaid.
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