Expanding Medicaid is a no brainer
When Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally announced they were creating a 10-member group to study the impact of the state rejecting $1.8 billion in federal education funding, it came as a surprise to some, considering the lack of sound reasoning for it.
But longtime supporters of the state expanding Medicaid already grasp the GOP’s idiocy.
Tennessee could significantly raise the number of people with health coverage and reduce state spending by expanding Medicaid, according to a recent study published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The study estimates that 316,000 people would likely enroll in Medicaid and CHIP in Tennessee. Some would be newly eligible enrollees while others would come from the health care Marketplace and others would transition from more expensive employer-sponsored insurance to Medicaid. The number of uninsured people in Tennessee would decline by 27%.