Bredesen joins race to succeed Sen. Corker in Tennessee
Bredesen was a successful health care entrepreneur before winning election to two terms each as
"I have the right kind of experience and the actual track record that it will take to start working across party lines to fix the mess in
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Corker publicly clashed with President
Blackburn, 65, so far has emphasized her close alliance with Trump and has taken aim at fellow
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Bredesen grew up in rural
After working as a computer programmer in
Bredesen went
"I was the CEO of a successful public company listed on the
After selling the company, Bredesen made unsuccessful bids for mayor and
Bredesen narrowly won the 2002 governor's race to succeed unpopular Republican Gov.
Once in office, Bredesen stemmed the escalating costs of TennCare by cutting 170,000 adults from the program and reducing benefits to thousands more.
"I have never been through anything like that in my life," Bredesen said in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press. "I didn't run for office to tell people that they no longer have health care."
While those cuts didn't hurt Bredesen's re-election bid — he ended up carrying all 95 counties— they did become an issue when he was under consideration to become Obama's secretary of health and human services in 2011. That job ended up going to then-Gov.
"Too many people can't afford health insurance," Bredesen said in Thursday's video. "The Affordable Care Act needs fixing."
Bredesen said in the video that his time as governor was marked by the having to cope with "out of control" costs at TennCare and then with the meltdown of the Great Recession.
"With a lot of hard choices, we managed our way through all of that," he said. "We didn't just get through it, we prospered."
Bredesen noted that
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