TennCare enrollment went up 15 months in a row
The agency hasn’t been allowed to take most people’s coverage away under the federal public health emergency.
More low-income people in Tennessee now have government healthcare because of a key change former President Donald Trump made last year in the rules state Medicaid agencies must follow. (Daily Memphian file)
More low-income people have government healthcare now that TennCare has been effectively prohibited from taking away coverage. It’s a big shift from before the pandemic when the agency frequently took people off the rolls.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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