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tennessee
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Tweeting and Tennessee: The story of a block grant
Tennessee is pursuing a variant of a block grant for Medicaid (although it’s not strictly a block grant but more…
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Tennessee to take the lead in converting its Medicaid to block-grant funding
Tennessee may become the first state in the country to take advantage of the Trump administration’s enthusiasm for block-granting Medicaid –…
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Tennessee provides possible preview of health insurance markets
President Trump says he wants to encourage the formation of “association health plans” that would better enable small employers to…
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Medicaid and mental health: A Tennessee approach
Last week we posted an update on mental health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, so let’s follow up with…
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Causes, consequences of Nashville’s diabetes hot zone
In The Tennessean (and USA Today), Tom Wilemon has assembled a series of reports on what he calls “the diabetes…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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Bankruptcy: Health insurance for the desperate
In The New York Times, reporter Kevin Sack visits Nashville, Tenn. to tell stories from the front lines of health…
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Doctor’s path shows licensing’s weaknesses
The Associated Press’ Jay Reeves exposes systemic flaws in state medical licensing through the story of a physician who was…
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Mass., Tenn. provide test cases for federal reform
AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson takes a look at health care reform in Massachusetts and Tennessee and how the…