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This article appeared in the January 9, 2006 edition of The Nation.

December 20, 2005

TENNESSEE'S HEALTHCARE CUTS

Rochester, NY

Trudy Lieberman's article on TennCare cuts, "Mismanaged Care" [Dec. 12], should bring national attention to a shameful act. If readers would like to see the faces of some of those cut off--including, most likely, some of the 3,311 people that the state has effectively sentenced to death--they should take a look at Joon Powell's superb "Faces of TennCare" portraits at www.joonpowell.info/tenncare.html, the personal project of a gifted young photographer.

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About Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. more...
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