Why does TN Gov. Haslam, worth $2 billion, deny me health care? HE IS the face of Evil and Greed.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/21/haslam-richest-politician-in-country/22105767/
As I sit here, really knowing I need to see a doctor but having no way to do so, I have to wonder about greed. I have to wonder about people who have more than they will ever need in this lifetime.
Why, Governor Haslam, when you are worth TWO BILLION DOLLARS, did you deny me the right to have health care? Why, Governor Haslam, when you are worth TWO BILLION DOLLARS, do I live in an area where there is no dentist and people's teeth are falling out of their heads?
Does it make you feel like a king to know you had the power to refuse the ACA in our state? Did you have a GREED ORGASM just thinking of how many of us Tennesseans will die early because we can't access health care?
Do you feel all special and pretty and wonderful because you Lord over a state full of the disenfranchised, the working poor, the sick and the needy?
How do you live with yourself Good Ole Boy Haslam? How do people like you get up every day and look in the mirror and not see the evil that stares back at you?
Bill Haslam, you are just another face of GREED and EVIL and HATRED OF THE POOR.
The pain and heartache and suffering you have caused in this state will be legendary. Your legacy will be one of a rich trust fund wimp whose family connections made you a despot who did everything he could to make the poor poorer.
I know there is no god, because if there was one, she would strike you down with lightning the minute you entered her church.
So I sit here just in tears knowing my governor is worth TWO BILLION but he begrudges me a little bit of health care. I can't explain how this feels, to be sick and have no way to help myself. It is heartbreaking to know how selfish are our leaders - the ones who could improve lives only care about themselves and their cronies.
Republicans: The face of PURE EVIL AND GREED. But why? What makes someone so selfish? I will never understand it as long as I live - which may not be so long if I don't get out of this goddamned backwater ignorant state soon.
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And you don't look a THING like liver, chopped or otherwise!
Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN) announced on Wednesday that he will not pursue Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program, which would extend health coverage to an additional 140,000 uninsured Tennesseans and bring in $1.4 billion in federal funding in the first year.
Eight of Haslam’s fellow Republican leaders have come out in support of this provision of the health care reform law, as partisan opposition to Obamacare’s state-level reforms is finally beginning to give way. But the Tennessee governor is standing firm in his opposition to extending public health insurance to additional low-income Americans. Instead, Haslam will seek to extend coverage to the expanded population by using federal funding to buy private insurance, an alternative to Medicaid expansion that’s enticing a growing number of Republican leaders. The Tennessee governor said he won’t push for expansion until the federal government approves that plan.
Haslam’s announcement comes on the heels of reports about the dire state of Tennessee’s Medicaid program, known as TennCare. Since there are a significant number of low-income Tennessee residents whose annual incomes put them above the cut-off for TennCare coverage, but whose expensive medical bills make them unable to afford to purchase private insurance on their own, the state holds a “health care lottery” twice a year to allow those residents to call in for a special application for TennCare. The phone lines are flooded, and many people are unable to get through. Many of those people would be eligible to gain public health insurance coverage under the Medicaid expansion, and would no longer have to desperately dial a state number in the hopes of winning an elusive lottery to access the care they need.
Despite the fact that Tennessee is a deeply Republican state with a GOP-led legislature, Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion has won some support from business and labor leaders. The state’s largest business organization, the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry, came out in support of Medicaid expansion earlier this week, explaining that ensuring health coverage for poorer Tennesseans will have a “substantial economic impact benefiting our overall economy.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/27/1780811/tennessee-medicaid-expansion/
I despise Haslam, greedy corrupt pos reminds me of Gomer Pyle's rich evil twin.
The Haslam administration is looking into the possibility of privatizing the operation of services at several state parks.
Eleven state parks, including golf courses, marinas and resort parks, are named in a Request for Information filed last week by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to learn more from private vendors about leasing and management options.
“We have a responsibility to manage state parks and operations in a way that provides the best service for the best value to Tennessee taxpayers and visitors,” said Kelly Brockman, spokeswoman for the department. “We are in the beginning process of this. This is just a research phase. It’s just seeing what’s out there.”
If the state moves forward with privatization, layoffs for state employees are likely to follow, according to the Tennessee State Employment Association.
“If those jobs were all contracted out to private corporations, those would all be lost, all those people would be laid off,” said Robert O’Connell, executive director of the association. “They are trying to fix something that isn’t broken.”
The request is Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s latest effort to explore privatization.
http://archive.tennessean.com/article/20140227/BUSINESS/302270145/Tennessee-explores-privatizing-park-services
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Outsourcing a piece of Tennessee history? That's what some advocates fear the state's about to do.
The Haslam administration is preparing to demolish the 59-year-old Cordell Hull Building next to the state Capitol, and one idea that's been discussed is turning the land over to a private developer.
But NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered that some of the administration's claims about the building's condition may have been exaggerated.
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Earlier this year, Haslam's General Services commissioner, Brentwood developer Steve Cates, appeared before state lawmakers describing the Cordell Hull's condition in the most dire terms.
"That is a very unique situation in that it is leaking," Cates said during the department's budget hearings before the House Finance Committee.
The building's foundation was not waterproofed correctly, the commissioner told lawmakers, and trying to fix it would be a logistical nightmare. The main issue, he said, is the cost of fixing the water problems.
"There's not $40 million available to spend to get it where it doesn't leak, where there's not mold, where there's not mildew," he added.
We showed the commissioner's testimony to House Democratic Caucus Chair Mike Turner, then we showed him the consultant's report, showing the real cost of waterproofing the building's foundation: $2.8 million.
"The actual cost is $2.8 million and you're telling us it's going to cost $40 million, you've either given wrong information, you're not smart enough to know what you're doing or you're lying to us," Turner said.
http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/newschannel-5-investigates/questions-of-influence/265575681.html
Nothing like using your office to enrich your friends.
And don't even get me started about the family business' practice of ripping off its customers...
The sales tax on food and some medicine is just another example of how fucked up this state is; to hear them whine about how UNFAIR it is to expect them to pay taxes on their income you would think they're the ones suffering.
And yet the average Tennessean thinks they're getting a break from taxes by living here.
If I had the money I would move back to Vermont in a nanosecond.
Hell, if I had the money I could afford to go to the doctor and wouldn't be in so much pain right now.
Although hating on Haslam IS therapeutic, thanks for this. 
And oh yes, I have been in so much agony, only my loathing and anger for his greed has kept me going! If I'm going to die because of the conditions he's helped create, I'm gonna give that mother fucker and all Repukes and Teabaggers like him as much grief as I can before I go.
I wanted to keep this place I own because I love a lot of things about where I am, but the bad stuff now is outweighing the good. The South is not moving forward economically or socially and never will, because the populace loves the plantation scheme. They love being serfs in Tennessee, and have no respect for working people or for their own selves. You can't help people like that, and lawd knows I've tried.
Let them have their state; I just dream of getting out as soon as I can. You can come live with me if you don't make it out on your own!
Fortunately, my area is pretty hot right now so I may get enough to buy a place in Colorado or at least rent for a while til I find a place.
Love Vermont but the economy isn't so good. It's my daughter's favorite state, I think. She loves Yestermorrow and has a lot of friends up in the Northern Kingdom and says it feels like the Mother Country to her lol. So glad since she was born in Georgia!
Here's a
and here's a 
to the hope that we both can escape this hellhole.
Thanks for the invite. 
Liberals are not welcome here, that's been made abundantly clear. This tiny little pocket of blue I found feels more like a sinking raft than a refuge now. The increasing hostility makes me feel like I'm behind enemy lines.
Keep kicking ass and taking names while you're here and good luck to you as well!
I have a few decent, smart friends here, but most people are just poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's hard to even feel sorry for them anymore, because they really do have the power to make their own lives better but they won't out of sheer defiance, laziness and ignorance.
Sleezy guys like Haslam love them for the way they just lie down and take it.
I'll hollah at you when I move and I mean it. Glory day!
You could do a whole series...who would you include, Trump? The entire Bush clan?
Can't you imagine the joy of watching the formerly haughty get brought down?
You could have tribal councils where they vote to imprison one member, so they can know what it's like to be locked up for the amusement and profit of others. Gosh, don't get me started here 
Yeah, that would be fun.
Have you seen Snowpiercer, beam? Oh that is such a wretched, stunning ending, but the concept of the movie is so good.
Hollywood needs to make more hate the cruel rich movies. I may not want all that the avaricious want; having simple needs met and a few wants is nice. It's not envy but disgust and disdain for people with more than they will ever need denying others the very basics of life - just because they can.
And then being supported by the Good Christians. 
i just wrote a vent song for Bill. lol
here's the first verse (first lines MIGHT get cleaned up for the sensitive, idk ) :
I asked you Bill, to see a doc,
but you were such a greedy fuck.
So now I'm dying, and you're the reason why
But I'm gonna haunt you - when I die.
Yeah, I'm gonna haunt you when I die
I will not let a night go by
That I won't see the terror in your eyes.
yeah, I'm gonna haunt you when I die.
LOL. A nice little Johnny Cash style rhythm and chord progression.
Having fun singing it thinking about all the greedy assholes I WILL torment after my death If I have a choice in the matter.
Better hit the hay. Thanks for understanding so completely. It means a lot.
I'll be hearing it in my head when I finally turn in.
You're welcome, I wish I could do more and I hope things get better soon.
Good night.
It sounds like a great idea to me.
Compassion is far more rare than unobtanium these days and I appreciate it.
and hunger.
We are supposed to believe - still - that shoveling money into Haslam's and other rich folks' accounts will lead to PROSPERITY FOR ALL!
Gee, that hasn't worked in the decades since we started shoveling faster, but they still keep trying to sell us their goddamned tinkle down.
Rich people DESERVE to not pay taxes as they milk the system for all it's worth. Working people DON'T EVEN DESERVE BASIC HEALTH CARE.
FUCK THAT.
FUCK THE CRUEL RICH LIKE HASLAM.
Yeah, I am yelling
from this list of free and low cost clinics in Tennessee:
http://www.needymeds.org/free_clinics.taf?_function=list&state=TN
(For DUers in other states who are in the same boat, the website has resources for every state)
