Concerned citizens launch coalition, billboard campaign for Medicaid expansion
The billboards feature a sports fan wearing the colors of two state universities --
The Affordable Care Act gave states the option to use federal funding to expand their Medicaid programs -- which
"We wanted to focus on the fact that Tennesseans, many of whom do not have health care, who work and pay taxes, are supporting health care for people in other states who've chosen Medicaid expansion. And so our billboards are an attempt to point out the absurdity of that," campaign co-founder
Other campaign billboards are located in
Although there are costs to expanding Medicaid, research suggests that increasing health care access would generate new economic activity and help lower uncompensated care costs.
"We have to keep covering the uninsured instead of using the money that we're being taxed with to do it," said
Smallwood said the coalition was inspired by a similar grass-roots campaign in
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