Post by pavel on Mar 23, 2016 5:58:24 GMT -6
Rhetoric in support of Insure Tennessee hasn't emerged in the legislature to the degree that would bring Gov. Bill Haslam back into active campaigning for the plan.
A day after a citizen-funded campaign unveiled 20 billboards around the state imploring people to call Speaker Beth Harwell to bring Insure Tennessee — Haslam's insurance expansion plan using Medicaid funding — to the floor of the House, Haslam's office said that despite the ongoing need for the plan, support isn't there.
"The need still exists, and Insure Tennessee is the right idea," said Jennifer Donnals, Haslam's press secretary. "The governor always said something would have to change for that to happen this legislative session, and we haven't seen that opening."
Donnals' comment was in response to inquiries from The Tennessean about Haslam's position now that renowned philanthropist Martha Ingram is involved with a privately funded billboard campaign, whether he asked Harwell to table the proposal and what it would take for the governor to bring back the plan.
Read more: www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/03/22/haslam-insure-tennessee-right-idea-but-no-change-lawmaker-support-after-billboards/82142672/
A day after a citizen-funded campaign unveiled 20 billboards around the state imploring people to call Speaker Beth Harwell to bring Insure Tennessee — Haslam's insurance expansion plan using Medicaid funding — to the floor of the House, Haslam's office said that despite the ongoing need for the plan, support isn't there.
"The need still exists, and Insure Tennessee is the right idea," said Jennifer Donnals, Haslam's press secretary. "The governor always said something would have to change for that to happen this legislative session, and we haven't seen that opening."
Donnals' comment was in response to inquiries from The Tennessean about Haslam's position now that renowned philanthropist Martha Ingram is involved with a privately funded billboard campaign, whether he asked Harwell to table the proposal and what it would take for the governor to bring back the plan.
Read more: www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/03/22/haslam-insure-tennessee-right-idea-but-no-change-lawmaker-support-after-billboards/82142672/