430,000 poor and disabled people dropped from Medicaid in Tennessee

The governor announced plans Wednesday to dissolve Tennessee's expanded Medicaid system and drop 430,000 poor and disabled people from the rolls of the health-care program that has been devouring a large chunk of the state budget.Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tennessee will instead return to a cheaper, more basic Medicaid program.The move followed months of legal wrangling over the TennCare program, whose $7.8 billion price tag was projected to mushroom in coming years.