When the Affordable Care Act first rolled out a few years ago, several states (and large on partisan lines) rejected the federal government’s call for states to adopt Medicaid expansion. However, this has started to change as hospital and religious organizations lobby state legislators to change this. Tennessee is one of the states that is looking to expand Medicaid if (and that’s a big if) they can get it passed by their state legislators.
Read more here on the previous proposal that was rejected and the current one to replace it.
