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Bredesen: Either OK cable tax, or find alternative
— Feb 09 2010 9:45 PM from WBIR
Tennessee hospitals push for tax to offset cuts to TennCare
— Feb 09 2010 6:45 PM from The Tennessean
Tennessee hospitals push for tax to offset cuts to TennCare
— Feb 09 2010 3:36 PM from The Tennessean
Tennessee hospitals push for tax to offset cuts to TennCare
— Feb 09 2010 2:51 PM from The Tennessean
Tennessee hospitals push for tax to offset cuts to TennCare
— Feb 09 2010 11:46 AM from WBIR

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Gov. Phil Bredesen conducts the State of the State speech in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.

"Services will disappear, and some hospitals will disappear, too ... It's just going to devastate the system."

Craig Becker Feb 07 2010 9:03 AM from The Tennessean

"When you deal with kids on the edge, it is so very easy for people to write them off"

Terry Adams Feb 06 2010 11:52 AM from Leaf Chronicle

"People are looking for ways to save money, and it makes so much more sense to prevent and intervene on children early before their problems become so serious that it's costing much more"

Terry Adams Feb 06 2010 11:52 AM from Leaf Chronicle

"We think it's great the communities will get some of the prevention services they are so important to their local communities, and we're pleased the governor can do that"

Rob Johnson Feb 06 2010 11:52 AM from Leaf Chronicle

"Within the regiment we have entire families serving"

Phil Bredesen Feb 06 2010 4:05 AM from The Clarion-Ledger

"You can't tax the same service from one person and not tax it from another ... I don't think of it so much as though we're raising taxes across the board on television, but really we're kind of fixing a loophole."

Phil Bredesen Feb 05 2010 1:19 PM from Boston Globe

"We've tried to pick a set of them that gets us to the numbers we need that has the minimum impact on the individuals on TennCare, but what that means, there is a lot of stuff that has an impact on the providers on TennCare, and..."

Phil Bredesen Feb 03 2010 11:36 PM from WSMV Nashville

"I believe it is a common sense family budget in a very difficult time, and I hope you will consider and enact it promptly"

Phil Bredesen Feb 03 2010 11:35 AM from Leaf Chronicle

"We or the next governor and General Assembly will deal with it once it actually happens ... For now, let's stick with the plan."

Phil Bredesen Feb 02 2010 12:16 PM from WBIR

"One of the most troubling for me is the cap on hospitalization ... If that was left as it is now, there's going to be a lot of hospitals shut down in the state, it would seem to me."

Gary Odom Feb 02 2010 12:16 PM from WBIR