TennCare once was model for public health care, but now is cautionary tale. Over 1,000 HIV patients left with no coverage.
TennCare's chief features of expanding health care coverage to uninsured and uninsurable people have been eliminated, and many HIV patients will lose their health care coverage, Stephen Raffanti, MD, MPH, chief medical officer of Comprehensive Care Center in Nashville, TN.
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