As most of us know by now, healthcare in Massachusetts is currently in a state of crisis as legislators, frustrated with their inability to control private insurance premiums are involved in a standoff with private firms which have stopped writing new policies.
Fewer realize that Tennessee's Medicaid "TennCare", their "public option" for the poor, is also in the end stages of a private insurance-caused breakdown. 100,000 people have been dumped from the rolls, many making less than the poverty line.
The media line is that rising costs have made the state drop those 100,000 people. What the media don't tell us is that this situation is competely unnecessary, and in many ways, its artificially manufactured.