Big increase: Close to 300,000 Tennesseeans may be eligible for Insure Tennessee
Administration officials released the revised figures today in a presentation to nearly four dozen state legislators who next week will be among those in a special session debating whether to give Haslam a green light to proceed with the two-year pilot project.
Meanwhile, a TennCare-commissioned actuarial study estimates the program's costs in the first six months beginning
The federal law, also known as Obamacare, provides full funding through 2016, then gradually begins to scale back the federal share.
The first full year of Insure Tennessee's implementation --
State-based hospitals have volunteered to pick up the state's share through an increase in the existing 4.52 percent assessment on most hospitals' net income.
In the first half of fiscal year 2018 --
Haslam said that at that point the program would end unless he believes it has been a successful in terms of its goals and is financially sustainable.
State officials had previously cited figures of around 200,000 people, mostly adults, who would benefit from what Haslam calls his "market-driven" plan to use federal
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