Battle for lawmakers' health benefits information goes on

Gov. Bill Haslam delivers his annual State of the State address to the Tennessee Legislature in Nashville in this Feb. 9, 2015, file photo.
Gov. Bill Haslam delivers his annual State of the State address to the Tennessee Legislature in Nashville in this Feb. 9, 2015, file photo.

Although a handful of lawmakers officially killed Gov. Bill Haslam's controversial health care plan this month, the battles related to Insure Tennessee aren't over.

Right now two state agencies are fighting over whether they must release details about the public health insurance benefits that go to most of Tennessee's 132 state lawmakers.

Those lawmakers continue to face scrutiny about their use of taxpayer-funded plans -- which cover 80 percent of monthly premiums in addition to other benefits -- after the death of Insure Tennessee. Haslam proposed providing federally funded health care to hundreds of thousands of low-income residents.

Read more at The Tennessean.

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