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After it dumps 321,000 adults from its rolls over the next 12 months and institutes new limits on services such as prescriptions and physician visits, TennCare will still be "in the top ten" among the nation's Medicaid programs for coverage comprehensiveness. So said Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) in a Jan. 10 announcement that finally lowered the axe on the state's 11-year-old attempt to cover most of its hard-to-insure citizens while keeping costs in the range of Medicaid programs that cover only federally required populations.
If the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approves the plan, Tennessee will end coverage this year for--first, sometime this spring--38,000 elderly and disabled people who also have Medicare coverage and 121,000 uninsured lower-income people. By fall, 67,000 people who are considered medically uninsurable because of chronic illnesses will be dropped. Another 97,000 "medically needy" people...
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