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spanone

(135,795 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 08:38 AM Mar 2013

Tennesseans without insurance take care into own hands

If the state does not find a way to expand coverage under the Affordable Care Act, working-class Tennesseans who got caught in the cracks caused by illnesses, injuries and hard economic times are among the most vulnerable.

Lucy Maynard cried for two hours in a borrowed home at the dead-end street of a trailer park in Old Hickory after watching Gov. Bill Haslam announce that Medicaid wouldn’t be expanded in Tennessee.

Now she figures she’ll have to stick with a home remedy for her health care plan.

“I eat aspirin,” she said. “That’s all I get is a cheap bottle of aspirins.”

She suffers from the pain of an old injury and the nagging depression that comes with growing older and being poor. At age 59, she’s too young for Medicare but feels too broken for anyone to offer her a job with health benefits.

Ted Woodward of East Nashville also knows what it’s like to suck it up. Without health insurance, the 60-year-old man had to wear a girdle for eight months before he finally was able to get a hernia operation.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130328/NEWS07/303280051/Tennesseans-without-insurance-take-care-into-own-hands
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Tennesseans without insurance take care into own hands (Original Post) spanone Mar 2013 OP
this really is a sick soceity... madrchsod Mar 2013 #1
actually it's a republican death panel. I live in Tn. If this isn't a wake up call I don't know southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #6
Yet Tennessee Remains One Of The Reddest States In The Union - How Many Uninsured In TheMastersNemesis Mar 2013 #2
Yep. I live here reflection Mar 2013 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author TheMastersNemesis Mar 2013 #3
Is this the state for the lottery for health care? Iliyah Mar 2013 #5
Gov. Haslam indepat Mar 2013 #7
Its pretty fucked up here for the ill with little money Go Vols Mar 2013 #8
TennCare is ass back-wards. Read what you posted on the qualifications to get in the program. bluestate10 Mar 2013 #9
I read it again Go Vols Mar 2013 #10
What's the problem? HeiressofBickworth Mar 2013 #11

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
1. this really is a sick soceity...
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:04 AM
Mar 2013

for a state to decide who will suffer and die....wait a minute ...



is`t this the same as a so called "obama death panel" the right wing was yelling about ?

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
6. actually it's a republican death panel. I live in Tn. If this isn't a wake up call I don't know
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:17 AM
Mar 2013

what is. Look in the mirror and decide the next time you are going to vote. Are you going to vote for YOUR best interesting or are you going to vote against things like gay rights or abortion rights that may have no effect on you personally. You have to make up your mind. If you vote for you and your families interest then vote Dem's. If you don't and vote republican then this is what you get. It's up to you. I will always vote in my financial best interest for my family and not vote for social interests that don't effect me and my family.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. Yet Tennessee Remains One Of The Reddest States In The Union - How Many Uninsured In
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:12 AM
Mar 2013

that state continue to vote GOP and would never never never vote for a commie Democrat? There is little evidence that their politics will change anytime soon either.

reflection

(6,286 posts)
4. Yep. I live here
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:02 AM
Mar 2013

and am constantly amazed at the number of people who serve as useful idiots for the Republican party, practically running through a wall on voting day to cast a ballot against their best interests.

Response to spanone (Original post)

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
5. Is this the state for the lottery for health care?
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:02 AM
Mar 2013

Kinda reminds me of some serious sci-fi deranged movies huh.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
7. Gov. Haslam
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 05:40 PM
Mar 2013

can be counted on to do the right thing, the far, far right thing, damn the torpedoes, the hell with the amount of pain, suffering and deaths needless inflicted by doing the far, far right thing, being a good little goose-stepper.

Go Vols

(5,902 posts)
8. Its pretty fucked up here for the ill with little money
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 07:11 PM
Mar 2013
NASHVILLE – The TennCare Standard Spend Down program will again offer open enrollment opportunities to new applicants on Thursday, March 21, 2013 beginning at 6 p.m. CST.

Standard Spend Down is available through a waiver to the Medicaid program for a limited number of qualified low-income individuals, or those with high, unpaid medical bills who are aged, blind, disabled, or the caretaker relative of a Medicaid eligible child. Eligible individuals must have enough unpaid medical bills to meet the "spend down" threshold to qualify for coverage.



We don't do medicare,we have Tenncare

http://www.tn.gov/tenncare/


bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
9. TennCare is ass back-wards. Read what you posted on the qualifications to get in the program.
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 08:04 PM
Mar 2013

One of the big benefits of Medicare is the program has bent toward preventative care to bring down costs, the program is a leader in that space. TennCare supposedly helps a lucky few that have gotten buried by medical bills because they became seriously ill. Taking TennCare over Medicare care is equivalent to ignoring a loaded semi as the engine is started up in a parking lot in favor of stopping it two miles down the highway when it has a full head of steam. Little wonder why Tennessee is one of the most backward states in the country when it comes to governance. The good people in that state must act now to take government back from rightwing idiots.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
11. What's the problem?
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:15 PM
Mar 2013

This is working out just the way Republicans want it to -- only people with money deserve health care. Everyone else is expendable.

(do I need the sarcasm thingy here or do you get it?)

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