Tennessee Health Socialism

Lessons from Tennessee's continued failing experiments with socialized medicine. (First it was TennCare (which imploded), now it's CoverTN.)

Here's an interesting slice from Drew Johnson:

CoverTN’s own website is quick to boast that the insurance coverage begins with the first dollar spent on healthcare, with no deductible and only a $15 co-pay for doctor’s visits. But that does little to help. Nearly everyone in Tennessee can afford to pay $60 for strep throat treatment in a walk-in clinic. Nevertheless, CoverTN pays for that. Few, however, could afford a $28,000 angioplasty or a $36,000 knee surgery, but CoverTN only pays for the first $15,000 of those procedures.
-Max Borders