Jim Cooper likes to keep people guessing. By his own admission, he likes to keep his students guessing in their graduate classes at Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management. He has openly espoused the horrendous bill put forth by the abusive Nancy Pelosi. He, who called Benazir Bhutto "Pinky", believes he knows so much more than the public and must like to use this as a means of control over his constituents. It is against this type of false superiority that Governor Phil Bredesen has drawn a solid line in the sand and made a solid stand for the had-working taxpayers of this state.
In an ABC News interview, June 26th, Governor Bredesen stated that by the time he took office, "Tenncare was growing by 15% a year," Previous statements by a former Governor McWherter aid quoted that Governor as saying that a State Income Tax would have to be implemented to cover the costs. At that time, the black hole of the state's budget was consuming one-third of revenues needed to run the government. Governor Bredesen has done wonderfully carving up the mess and ridding the taxpayers of much of the fraud created by Tenncare Start-ups and brought in a credible vendor, Amerigroup, to handle much of the inquiries. Why doesn't Jim Cooper take his state seriously?
Governor Bredesen's Cover Tennessee only costs the state approximately 11 million dollars for minimum coverage. The premise behind the program is to encourage its participants to pursue wellness over expensive treatments and to provide them a miminum coverage alternative in the event of sudden job loss. Congressman Cooper, who originally didn't espouse the Pelosi mess, now seems to embrace it with "open loving arms." With at least one member of his staff detesting Pelosi, why is Cooper suddenly in love with the House Speaker and her Hitleresque tactics?
In his interview with the Tennessean's editorial staff, Congressman Cooper faults Blue Cross/Blue Shield as guilty of many things. Congressman Cooper needs to examine the history of the Federal Government's dealing with the Blue Cross/Blue Shield network. His own cousin, attorney Thomas Turley Rankin, head attorney for the HOLC, had his healthcare covered by the network, which at the time probably possessed 100% of the government's contracts. So what has this nonprofit entity done to the Congressman personally? Perhaps, it didn't pay him enough in lobbying fees.
So where does the state go? The state's insurance producer classes, instructs those seeking licensure, to get a letter from a company stating an applicant is "uninsurable." That allows the company to dump the poor person on the back of the taxpayers. Naturally, a taxpayer has to wonder if the private insurance companies already support the so-called "public option." Tennessee's Governor is a hero in protecting his constituents as Jim Cooper loves to play games with his. The Allen Parsons Project said it best in one of their songs, "Games people play you take it or you leave it. Things that they say just don't make it right." Congressman Cooper is a nice man, but with people in economic stress, do they really need games or a serious public servant watching out for their interests? Maybe Jim Cooper needs to stop believing a leader is "Pinky" and become a serious leader in his own right.
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