How is Nashville, TN's "Alternative" to Expanding Medicaid and Implementing the Affordable Care Act Working Out?

How is Nashville, TN's "Alternative" to Expanding Medicaid and Implementing the Affordable Care Act Working Out?

Tennessee Race for Medicaid: Dial Fast and Try, Try Again (an article published by The New York Times on March 24, 2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/tennessee-holds-health-care-lottery-for-the-poor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

 A Republican-controlled legislature, mostly made up of Tea Party members in Nashville Tennessee came up with a lottery system in lieu of expanding Medicaid and setting up exchanges for people to sign up come October 1, 2013. It now opens the line for residents to call twice a year. The line shuts down after 2500 calls come in. The Washington Post.com/blogs posted a video by John Stewart, The Daily Show which you should see.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/06/06/the-daily-show-on-a-tennessee-health-care-lottery-program-video/?fb_action_ids=532646360139880&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

To see where they're at today I checked with a Tennessee legislature watch dog group that out this Healtcare Legislation notice http://www.tnwatchdogs.org/health-care.html.

This is an "Alert" the watchdog group put on it's notice:

HEALTH CARE STATE COMPACT--TENNESSEE

ALERT #1--This compact originated via Tea Party Patriots and was carried to Senator Mae Beavers for consideration.

This is the bill summary; it doesn't look good for Tennessee residents: Bill Summary This bill enacts the Health Care Compact which:
(1) Specifies that each member state of the compact would have the authority to enact state laws that supersede any and all federal laws regarding health care within its state;
(2) Specifies that each member state would have the right to mandatory federal funds to support the exercise of member state authority under this compact and that this funding would not be conditional on any action, regulation, policy, law, or rule of any kind of the member state. According to an appendix of the Compact, in 2010, such federal funding in Tennessee was $16.389 billion; and
(3) Creates the interstate advisory health care commission, described below.

Under this bill, the interstate advisory health care commission would consist of members appointed by each member state through a process to be determined by the laws of each member state. No state may appoint more than two members to the commission, and at any time a member state may withdraw its members from the commission.

 

 

 http://www.tnwatchdogs.org/health-care.html