Judge’s Ruling Turns Spotlight On Tennessee’s Worn, Torn Safety Net Officials keep thousands of children, adults in poverty by rejecting, misspending, or not spending federal funds.
Nashville, TN. – Tennessee’s Medicaid blockade began in 2014, when former state Rep. Jeremy Durham (left) and former state Sen. Brian Kelsey, both Republicans, helped pass a law that has blocked billions of federal health care dollars from helping poor and needy families. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig) A decade has passed since two state legislators launched Tennessee’s [...]