Press release, NASHVILLE – Today, Speaker Beth Harwell's organized healthcare task force, the "3 Start Healthy Project,"
released a tentative outline of their
plan to expand government healthcare in Tennessee. While the Beacon Center has committed to working with task force members on exploring market-based, innovative solutions to improve access and quality of care, they remain cautious of the proposed plan.
Beacon Policy Director Lindsay Boyd,
who testified against Gov. Haslam's
Medicaid expansion proposal
during the 2015
legislative session reacted by stating, "The Beacon Center has serious
reservations about the
direction and shape
this proposal
may take
. Because it is incomplete in regard to the details needed to assess
the sustainability, flexibility, and socio-economic impact of such a program,
we must withhold
judgement as
we continue to
meet and discuss these plans
in greater depth
with members of the task force."
Boyd went on to note, "The Beacon Center remains consistent in our opposition to
an expansion of
Medicaid
under the Affordable Care Act,
and will not support efforts that may jeopardize the state's autonomy, economy, and access to care for those most vulnerable patients already enrolled in the state's already crowded Medicaid program."
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