Tennessee lawmakers rejected Insure Tennessee, the alternative Medicaid expansion plan proposed by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R), according to a The Tennessean report.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted Wednesday against passing Insure Tennessee, according to the report. Four of the 11 committee members supported the plan.
Prior to the vote, House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) said she didn't believe the plan would get enough votes in the House to pass, according to The Tennessean.
Insure Tennessee would have provided federally subsidized healthcare to an estimated 280,000 residents between the ages of 19 and 64 who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid and have family incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. It was set to be fully funded with federal dollars through Dec. 31, 2016, and then, beginning Jan. 1, 2017, when the federal match rate declines, with federal dollars as well as revenues from a state assessment on hospitals.
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