<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bb288097-004c-41e9-89be-2e4b8c42a834/F647D844-3AC9-4729-A415-93E5A9CA21A7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-13430-Sarpy-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d3-TennCare-MassCare-and-Keiki-Care-Failed-public-health-care-options-and-the-new-American-Dream" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-13430-Sarpy-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d3-TennCare-MassCare-and-Keiki-Care-Failed-public-health-care-options-and-the-new-American-Dream" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-13430-Sarpy-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d3-TennCare-MassCare-and-Keiki-Care-Failed-public-health-care-options-and-the-new-American-Dream"><STRONG>TennCare</STRONG> was instituted in Tennessee in 1994 and was supposed to keep health care costs down. Instead, businesses began dumping their employees into the public program as a cost saving measure for themselves. This took TennCare from $2.5 billion in taxes all the way to over $8 billion which threatened the fiscal stability of the entire state, and forced Governor Phil Bredesen in 2005 to cut 150,000 people out of the program, and reduce benefits for all that were left on the program</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-13430-Sarpy-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d3-TennCare-MassCare-and-Keiki-Care-Failed-public-health-care-options-and-the-new-American-Dream"><STRONG>MassCare</STRONG> was implemented by Governor Mitt Romney in 2006, and has been a terrible burden on the people of Massachusetts. State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said that MassCare was "expensive, even in good times. In tough times, it just doesn't seem doable." Since its implementation, public health care spending has gone up 42%, and expenditures for low to moderate income Massachusetts residents have doubled from $6</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F647D844-3AC9-4729-A415-93E5A9CA21A7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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