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Second Look For Insure Tennessee Ends Much Like The First

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Insure Tennessee advocates showed up to encourage lawmakers to reconsider Governor Haslam's plan to expand Medicaid. Credit: Chas Sisk / WPLN
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Hundreds of Insure Tennessee supporters clad in purple t-shirts descended on Capitol Hill last week.  They were trying to will the legislature to take another look at Governor Bill Haslam’s plan to expand Medicaid to 280,000 low-income Tennesseans.

But their efforts did little to change the result from two months prior.


 

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Chas Sisk, Senior Editor

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 and became an editor in 2018. Previously, he covered state politics for Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessean, and he’s also reported on communities, politics and business for a variety of publications in Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University, where he studied economics and journalism.

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