Tennessee Rx spend falls over 66%

20 April 2009

The southern US state of Tennessee's TennCare, which adopted Hillary Clinton's 1993 plan for universal health care before escalating costs  led to drastic cutbacks in recent years, has reported a more than  two-thirds drop in prescription drug spending from 2005 to 2008. In  2005, Governor Phil Bresenden (Democrat) introduced a cap on the number  of prescriptions a beneficiary could fill per month to five, of which  two could be branded products.

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