It was going to be "free federal money" to Tennessee for a few years, to pay for adding 280,000 more people to the taxpayer-paid subsidies, so how could you pass up that kind of deal? Well, the state house and senate weren't having any of it. Though the representatives and senators are not multimillionaires like Haslam, they apparently are savvy enough to recognize a multi-billion dollar boondoggle and money pit and therefore figure out that "free money" from Mordor on the Potomac should send anyone running in the opposite direction.
So, despite the best efforts of Haslam, Tennessee has not (yet) joined the states led by Republican governors who have bitten off on the ObamaCare free money.
Free stuff for Memphis parasites.
Props to the TN legislators who killed this!
Not the proper role of government.
Disappointing we’re stuck with 3 years and 11 months more of this big gubmint phony.
Most are not all that wealthy.
It was nothing but an expansion of Obamacare. It was going to be “free” for a couple of years and then the TN taxpayers would be footed with the bill, with federal strings still attached, of course.
I spent a little while the other night emailing every durn one of the state legislators, saying NO to Haslam’s plan. I told them to stop falling for the federal government’s “carrot & stick” that will allow them to take control. The moment any government funding is accepted by the state, we have no more say so on the matter.
Haslam said the Tennessee Hospital Association would cover the cost of Insure TN. Suuuuuure, but for how long? Wait’ll they saw how much it would end up costing them!
Several years back, thousands of Tennesseans were dumped from TennCare because 33% of the entire state’s budget was covering the cost and we just couldn’t afford it. One of the senators told me in his reply that it’s back up to 33% again. HELLO!
I cheered when I heard the news yesterday that this Bovine Scatology idea of Haslam’s was shot down in flames. It was a bad idea that was only going to screw us royally in the end.