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
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