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Representative Marsha Blackburn claims Tennessee's government-run health insurance plan TennCare is a "disaster." She warns a federally sponsored public option would likely result in a similar outcome.
State spending in Tennessee, she says, accelerated from 2.5 billion dollars in 1995 to 8 billion in 2004 because people dropped their private insurance in favor of the "public option."
Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) criticizes employer mandated health coverage, citing crowd-outs and a cost-shift onto employees.
"What these employer mandates end up being is a tax increase on employees," she says.