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The TennesseanFamilies USA, a national nonprofit advocate of changes to the health care system, called the state's basic health plan for working Tennesseans "bare bones" in a report released Thursday.
Advocates and the report criticized CoverTN's coverage and its limits.
"These are shallow benefits provided to people," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based Families USA. "It's insurance that doesn't insure."
The state countered that the coverage serves its purpose: providing basic health care services.
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Gov. Phil Bredesen created CoverTN in 2006 after cutting 170,000 adults from TennCare, the state's expanded Medicaid program. The move was an attempt to control the cost of the program.
Read more:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090522/NEWS07/905220359/1001/NEWS/CoverTN+called++insurance+that+doesn+t+insure+
Cover Tennessee offers subsidized health care to low-income workers and insurance plans for children and people with chronic illnesses.
Thank you President Obama for appointing Kathleen Selibus to Health and Human Services Secretary -and NOT Phil Bredesen.