TNDP Chairman: Rejecting Medicaid Expansion is Not ‘Pro-Life’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Roy Herron issued a statement Wednesday in response to Governor Bill Haslam’s rejection of federal funding to expand Medicaid. “Deuteronomy 30...
View ArticleDo Nothing Governor: Haslam ‘Plan’ Amounts to a No
‘Tennessee Plan’ leaves uninsured, rural hospitals with no solution NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Halsam promised a decision on expanding Medicaid today, but instead delivered a “no” dressed up as a...
View ArticleTop Democrat: Governor Haslam Has ‘Failed to Deliver’
House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh released a video statement Thursday in response to Governor Haslam’s decision to reject a federally-funded Medicaid expansion. The expansion would provide more than...
View ArticleHerron: ‘Sickest Tax Day in Tennessee History’
Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Roy Herron called April 15, 2013 the “sickest tax day in Tennessee history” on Monday. Herron said Governor Bill Haslam and Republicans rejected $1.4 billion — of...
View ArticleChairman: Expand Medicaid for Working People
If the politicians and the prisoners, the lawmakers and the lawbreakers, have health care, what’s wrong with working women and working men having health care? That’s the question Chairman Roy Herron...
View ArticleHerron: ‘Choose Life’— Expand Medicaid Now
The Commercial Appeal featured a column Thursday — the second in a series — from Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Roy Herron, who wrote for the second time in about the importance of extending...
View ArticleBlocking Medicaid Expansion Will Be Economic ‘Disaster’ for Local Hospitals
The Republican refusal to expand Medicaid in Tennessee and extend health insurance to as many as 330,000 working people will have dire consequence for patients, workers and hospitals, Chairman Roy...
View ArticleHerron: Why Tennessee should expand Medicaid
Tens of thousands of Tennesseans are signing up for affordable health insurance through the new online exchanges. Meanwhile, dependable health coverage for 330,000 Tennesseans hangs in the balance. The...
View ArticleHouse Democrats Tell Haslam to Listen to GOP Governors Expanding Medicaid
In what must be ironic news to the 330,000 Tennesseans waiting for a decision on Medicaid expansion, Governor Bill Haslam was chosen to Chair the National Governors Association’s Health and Human...
View ArticleFitzhugh: Haslam Creates Health Purgatory
The following column by State House Democratic Leader Craig Fitzhugh appeared Nov. 3, 2013 in The Commercial Appeal Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says we have plenty of time to deal with Medicaid...
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