Medicaid work-requirement bill heads to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam
The bill, which previously passed the House, requires the administration to seek a federal waiver of Medicaid rules, operated here as TennCare, in order to implement "reasonable work and community engagement" requirements on able-bodied, working-age adult enrollees without dependent children under the age of 6.
Senators "in this chamber never had the chance to vote for Medicaid expansion," Yarbro said, alluding to Gov.
"The governor obviously had some discussion earlier this year about whether it was time to re-initiate this [expansion] conversation in light of the work requirement," Yarbro added.
Bill sponsor Sen.
Yarbro also sought to amend the bill with another provision ensuring the state doesn't spend more to implement the work requirement than it would save by its implementation.
Roberts and fellow
The state would use federal money from a reserve in
Johnson charged in her statement that the bill "recklessly puts thousands of vulnerable children, seniors and people with disabilities at risk that the state system will cost them their health coverage."
She accused lawmakers of continuing "to ignore the real health concerns of Tennesseans. They still block the Governor's use of our federal tax dollars to cover uninsured low-wage workers, sustain rural hospitals, create jobs and broaden access to treatment for addiction and other serious illness."
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"We are glad to see that the legislature has passed common sense work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients," said Beacon Impact Executive Vice President
While the Trump administration has approved Medicaid work requirements in a number of states, those states had expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to low-income working adult men and women.
House Speaker
In other legislative action Thursday:
» Following testy debate, the House voted 65-15 for legislation that directs the state to design and erect a "Tennessee Monument to Unborn Children" in the state
"This is for children who never make it to birth, who actually died while in the womb," said bill sponsor Rep.
Rep.
She said
Another member, Rep.
Sexton, who earlier said he believes life begins at conception, said "if your philosophy is correct, then it would not be against the law to take the life of a 1-year-old or a 2-year-old. However, children in the womb in your assertion aren't human. So it's lawful to take their lives. That is the people I'm directing this monument to -- those that never had the chance at life."
The
» The Republican-run House approved all of Haslam's proposed nine nominees to the new
Rep.
Senators rejected Malone, saying they didn't want any lobbyists serving on the new board.
One
A Republican senator retorted that Ramsey wasn't a lobbyist at the time.
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