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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Schools Matter: Haslam and Insurance Execs Hold 150,000 Poor Tennesseans Hostage

Schools Matter: Haslam and Insurance Execs Hold 150,000 Poor Tennesseans Hostage:


Haslam and Insurance Execs Hold 150,000 Poor Tennesseans Hostage

At stake for the greedy bastards who made and control Bill Haslam?  A billion dollars in Medicaid that these corporate socialists want to turn into private insurance premiums, rather than offering the poorest Tennesseeans healthcare under the state TennCare program.  From the News-Sentinel:
NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam told the General Assembly today that he is rejecting an expansion of Medicaid for now because the federal government has not agreed to some aspects of a “Tennessee plan” that involves using federal money to buy private insurance.
“A pure expansion of medicaid, expanding a broken system, doesn’t work,” said Haslam, contending he wants to use federal money to buy private insurance akin to