TennCare Audit

[Solitaire]

"In March of this year, TennCare utilized an outside vendor to determine
the accuracy and completeness of 1,687 TennCare applicants," Cooper
stated. Of these applicants, 24.7 percent an out-of-state residence, 8.3
percent were deceased, and 20 of the Social Security numbers were
outside the range of Social Security numbers.

Ah!

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Urrrh, O.K., but WTF is " TennCare?

 

[Solitaire]

Urrrh, O.K., but WTF is " TennCare?

It's a state managed health care program that supposed to cost less than
the federal mandated Medicaid program. It cost 5.6 billion dollars last year,
by the way there's 5.6 million people living in tennessee. I wonder about it
and many of the other state programs.

More info on the program.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

It's a state managed health care program that supposed to cost less than
the federal mandated Medicaid program. It cost 5.6 billion dollars last year,
by the way there's 5.6 million people living in tennessee. I wonder about it
and many of the other state programs.

More info on the program.

Thanks.. Interesting... Looks like a model of government missmanagement..


Why do I suspect it has a large bureaucracy that consumes a big chunk of the budget?

 

[jj]

Why do I suspect it has a large bureaucracy that consumes a big chunk of the budget?

Although I have no reason beyond cynicism to really assert this, I'd say that your comment looks cynically depressed.

I'd also say, of course, that a variety of psychological evaluations of situations show that cynical people who manifest some depressive symptoms are often the best evaluators of a situation.

No, I don't really think you're being depressed, merely realistic. Cynical, yes, but I would argue that cynicism is a reasoning person's response to government.

 

[corplinx]

Tenncare was the brainfart of a democrat governer name Ned McWherter is probably a cushy foreign lobbyist of diplomat now.

We elected Don Sunquist to fix this mess and in 8 years all he did was turn into another democrat. He tried instituting an income tax and putting goverment in the business of monitoring your paychecks.

Now we have elected another democrat but he seems to be a class act. He is cutting state programs instead of raising taxes to control revenue shortages. I only hope he can fix the tenncare mess. Tennessee borders 8 states and people crossing the border and getting Tenncare has always been a known problem.

 

[Thumper]

Tennessee problems won't go away until the sales tax is reduced and an income tax is created.

 

[corplinx]

Tennessee problems won't go away until the sales tax is reduced and an income tax is created.

Yes, putting the government in the business of knowing how much you make solves lots of problems. It solves..... errr.... well..... it proves there is no constitutional right to privacy. It solves that problem for an intrusive government. Aside from that it does nothing except exploit the few for the benefit of the many based on subjective notions of fairness.

 

[Fade]

How much is Tennessee sales tax?

I live with lovely (I mean terrible) 8.5% sales tax, on top of property and federal income.

 

[Thumper]

In Knoxville, I pay either 9.25 or 9.75, I forget which.

As for the fairness argument...

yeah, it's very fair the way it is now, with the rich and the poor paying about the same in taxes.

 

[Solitaire]

Tennessee problems won't go away until the sales tax is reduced and an income tax is created.

A very libertarian response would be reduce the size of government.

Anyway, the income tax fight was a very strange one. Sunquist got in, I
guess it was 1996, and then the media blitz started. Television, newspaper,
and radio ads, even huge billboards popped up in support of the income tax.
I waited for the rich to respond. Months went by and nothing, not one peep.
Then one day I heard that the antitax protesters were honking horns and
calling up talk radio. That stopped me dead. I thought, why would the rich
do that? They'd spend big bucks on the lobbying while the poor protests
in the capitol. Then it hit me who really wanted the income tax and why.
Still, they did get a ten percent increase in sales tax as a consolation prize.