March 27, 2013

Tennessee’s Republican Governor Rejects Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

Tennessee’s Republican Governor Rejects Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion: Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN) announced on Wednesday that he will not accept Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program, which would extend health coverage to an additional 140,000 uninsured Tennesseans and bringing in $1.4 billion in federal funding in the first year. Eight of Haslam’s fellow Republican leaders have come out in support of this [...]/p