Sunday marked the day that hundreds of thousands of TennCare enrollees will be left out on the street without any way to pay for their prescription drugs. It also marks the day that Governor Bredesen made the biggest mistake of his life. First, he made a huge moral mistake. How can a person that cuts nearly 300,000 people from life-saving drugs call themselves "moral"? These are not drugs that people take just for the fun of it; people's lives depends on these drugs! I cannot imagine having to sign my name to legislation that would more than likely result in the death of many. Sure, there are many people that have abused the system for many years, but don't let everyone else suffer because of those mistakes. Go after the people that have caused trouble, not the people on disability that barely have enough money to survive. It is such a drastic change to have hundreds of thousands of people depend on this system and in a day their life source is gone! What are these people going to do? Beg for drugs? This is just something else to greatly increase the gap between the rich and poor. The poor will continue to get poorer and will be forced into the streets. It is just wrong to make people do such things after they have been promised a health care system. Bredesen also made a mistake politically. He now has nearly 300,000 that will automatically not vote for him in the coming election (as long as they go to the polls). When Bredesen was elected the leader of our great state, he promised us change. He told us that he would take care of our problems; he promised us prosperity; he promised us great changes to the struggling TennCare system. He indeed gave us great changes, but not changes that our people deserve. He will have a hard time next election to convince people that he made the right decision to cut so many people from the state's health care system. He definitely can kiss his presidential ambitions good-bye.
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