as we all remember manage care is going to be the solution arm to solving the rising health care costs in excess ability to care well we put together a plan that thank at managed care plans in the state compete with each other have you heard this story before and your holiday here you guys again today sixteen years later and what it did wise he had it took-medicare we got an exemption from Medicaid I mean from HHS to form these managed care plans which we did the health care spending in Tennessee in nineteen 93 94 a budget year was 2.6 billion dollars by the 2004 budget year 10 budget writers 8.5 billion over triple what happened
well what happened was 45 percent of the people had private health insurance made a perfectly logical decision because it was cheaper generous with benefits they dropped their 25 percent drop their private health insurance coverage in one on ten care well that would have been fine except what did you get for spending three times as much money well we got the most prescription drogues of any state in the Union and 47th and health outcomes and the other thing about that was I've been much my providers to the hospitals outside London Charles outcomes on well-known how you like how you that health outcome would be how you rank is harsh health in your state are you are youngster charges way is concerned I bee's hypertension a prescription drug use that's what health outcomes are and I want to the providers the laboratories in the hospitals and outpatient surgery centers in fashion how much obvious I have your cost is $10 care pay page less than sixty percent of the cost-medicare pays about eighty to ninety percent of the cost the uninsured pay somewhere in between and the cost in our state
were shifted to private health insurers forcing those premiums up faster and faster what will happen when the public plan and I guarantee it if the Sun comes up in the East tomorrow this is what's going to happen business is about to make a perfectly logical decision if they can Muscle Factor X pay 8 percent of payroll on its cheaper than what they're doing right now they'll drop you in the public plan this public plan will not pay the cost of care once again forcing more people that the premiums higher for those who are left in the private insurance at as you pointed out doctor brown that that very wealthy people will be up to forty.
well what happened was 45 percent of the people had private health insurance made a perfectly logical decision because it was cheaper generous with benefits they dropped their 25 percent drop their private health insurance coverage in one on ten care well that would have been fine except what did you get for spending three times as much money well we got the most prescription drogues of any state in the Union and 47th and health outcomes and the other thing about that was I've been much my providers to the hospitals outside London Charles outcomes on well-known how you like how you that health outcome would be how you rank is harsh health in your state are you are youngster charges way is concerned I bee's hypertension a prescription drug use that's what health outcomes are and I want to the providers the laboratories in the hospitals and outpatient surgery centers in fashion how much obvious I have your cost is $10 care pay page less than sixty percent of the cost-medicare pays about eighty to ninety percent of the cost the uninsured pay somewhere in between and the cost in our state
were shifted to private health insurers forcing those premiums up faster and faster what will happen when the public plan and I guarantee it if the Sun comes up in the East tomorrow this is what's going to happen business is about to make a perfectly logical decision if they can Muscle Factor X pay 8 percent of payroll on its cheaper than what they're doing right now they'll drop you in the public plan this public plan will not pay the cost of care once again forcing more people that the premiums higher for those who are left in the private insurance at as you pointed out doctor brown that that very wealthy people will be up to forty.