TN: Waiting (and Waiting) for Medicaid in Tennessee

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Tennessee wasn’t one of the 26 states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act when it went into effect in January. But the state did change how it evaluates applicants for its existing program: It eliminated positions for caseworkers who used to handle the applications by hand. Instead it outsourced most of the task to the federal healthcare.gov website, which was already bedeviled by glitches.

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