Expansion for Tennessee
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides federal funding to expand Medicaid to cover to low income Tennesseans. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could decide whether to permit their residents to receive that Medicaid coverage. Although Governor Haslam (R) created a plan to provide coverage to 300,000 Tennesseans under the ACA at no cost to the State or to Tennessee taxpayers (Insure Tennessee), the Tennessee legislature has failed to act.