Great News - Groups Sue Tennessee For Delaying Medicaid Coverage 'To Score Political Points'

[malaise]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/23/tennessee-medicaid-expansion_n_5614805.html
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Three consumer advocacy groups filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday accusing Tennessee officials of adopting policies that are depriving thousands of people of Medicaid coverage “to score political points.”

The suit was filed several weeks after the Obama administration ordered Tennessee and several other states to resolve problems that have led to a backlog nationwide of more than 1 million applications for Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor.

Tennessee officials responded to the administration, blaming many of the state's problems on the federal website, healthcare.gov. State officials did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.

Tennessee is the first state to be sued over Medicaid enrollment problems since passage of the federal health law, said Jane Perkins, legal director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Health Law Program, one of the groups that filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Nashville. The other plaintiffs are the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., and the Tennessee Justice Center, based in Nashville.

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Now get on with the ads exposing these ReTHUG obstructionists.

[samsingh]

1. hope the groups win big time