I’ve had a long and busy week at work so I am playing catch up with emails from today and yesterday. Received this e-mail today from former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s (D. TN) gubernatorial campaign:
I’ll be blunt. We should have expanded Medicaid in Tennessee. We lost millions of dollars -- federal funding paid for by our own taxes -- that went to other states instead. We missed out on years of health care coverage for almost half a million uninsured Tennesseans and had several of our hospitals close.
We can’t make that mistake again. Looking forward, Tennessee must put our people first and find the health care solution that is best for our state.
If Congress passes a new health care law, the federal government could soon make available billions of dollars for health care in one form or another, and we owe it to the residents of Tennessee to bring home as much of that funding as we can.
Will you join me in calling for Tennessee to put our people first when it comes to federal health care funding? Sign on to say you support accepting federal dollars for health care -- either through a new health care law or a Medicaid expansion -- so we can use the funds to help people and create jobs right here in our state.
It’s simple. People need health care. Without it, families can’t thrive, businesses can’t grow, and children can’t learn.
But right now, hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans don’t have health insurance for when they get sick -- they can’t afford it, and the state has rejected the federal funding that would have helped them. We can’t keep leaving these families behind. It’s time to help our state get healthy and stay healthy.
This isn’t a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. It’s a Tennessee issue. We can’t afford to let federal tax dollars pay for health care in other states but not our own.
Please sign on to support taking full advantage of federal health care funding to help Tennessee.
Thank you,
Karl
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