TennCare Protestors Facing New Challenges

[struggle4progress]

A group of TennCare protesters is now on day 22 of a sit-in outside Governor Bredesen’s office, but they’re about to see some big changes.

The protestors are upset about the governor’s plan to cut tens of thousands of people off TennCare, and they have vowed to remain inside the state capitol until he meets their demands. <snip>

The Tennessee Highway Patrol has begun enforcing a “no food or water” rule in the public areas of the capitol. The Governor's press secretary said that rule has been violated since the protest began. <snip>

But Lisa Abell, one of those involved in the protest, said, “Today we've been told we can't have food and water in here, which is an issue for us that have medical needs such as diabetes, hypoglycemia or are on medication.”

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/12823.asp

[pfitz59]

1. Frist family could pay healthcare costs.....

for every Tenneseean many times over. Read today CEO of drugstore.com earned $15 million last year. That's a lot of price gouging! When will people realize they're getting killed for greed?

[Tux]

2. Easy

Once their dying. It'll take a lot for people to understand that we are risking our health to greedy bastards that could care less about their own families let alone anyone elses.