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Governor Phil Bredesen unveiled his much-anticipated Cover Tennessee initiative as a blueprint for the next step in the future of health care in the Volunteer State. The strategy, which he billed as “affordable, portable health insurance for working families in Tennessee,” has three main components: 1) CoverTN, a partnership between the [...]

From this morning's Bloomberg News: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist faces a near-term ordeal unwelcome to anyone, particularly an ambitious politician: an official probe into his personal financial dealings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC authorized a formal order of investigation of F [...]

From Reuters: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's recent stock sale threatens to cost him and fellow Republicans politically as he mulls a 2008 presidential bid and investigators examine whether he violated any trading laws, political analysts said. "Frist's White House campaign hasn't really taken off, and this adds weight to an id [...]

Senate Majority Bill Frist apparently lied about his stock holdings, claiming on repeated occasions that “I don’t know if I own HCA,” even though in June he ordered a sell-off of shares in the Nashville-based hospital chain founded by his family. Meanwhile, critics say weak federal ethics laws allow for the creation of “qualified bli [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released this statement following reports that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors over his sell-off of shares in HCA Inc., the Nashville-based hospital ch [...]

From the Associated Press: The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family. In a statement released Friday, the Nashville-based company said federal prosecutors for the [...]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s well-timed sell-off of shares in Nashville-based HCA Inc. may have had less to do with profit-taking and more to do with distancing himself from the recently troubled hospital chain prior to running for president in 2008, some political observers believe. [...]

Governor Phil Bredesen on August 9 announced good news in TennCare: The State will be able to preserve healthcare coverage for 97,000 of the sickest and neediest people on the program. The latest development comes after the Governor went to federal court to fight for legal relief from a "consent decree" put in place during the Sundquist Admi [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released the following statement in response to the President's appointment of former Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist to lead the national Medicaid reform advisory commission: "Don Sundquist is a bizarre choice, to say the least. Our first thought was, 'This must be a joke.' Don [...]