Knoxville City Council passes symbolic vote in support of Insure Tenn.
Councilman
Council member
"It's a symbolic resolution and there are a lot of these going around," he said before the vote. "But it's incumbent on us to keep working toward this until it's achieved."
Five members of the public, including two University of
"Facts are not at the heart of this debate, because acceptance of Insure Tennessee is, above all, a moral issue," said
Mayor
Health department statistics between 2005 and now show little change in the number of insured
Initially, those people would have been covered by expanding
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