The debate of universal health care often draws on the example of Massachusetts’ system, but there is another example from Tennessee, TennCare, with an interesting tie to the Obama administration:
The President’s new health care czar was a critical link in the TennCare story. Serving as Human Services Commissioner in Tennessee and then as a key health staffer in the Clinton Administration, Nancy DeParle should be well aware of Tennessee’s health care saga. We hope that she lists the kind of universal care that TennCare embodied in the “don’t try again” column.
It’s starting to look like Mrs. DeParle didn’t learn anything from her job in Tennessee.
