With hospital support, Haslam begins building support for Medicaid plan

Salesman Bill Haslam was in high gear last week, urging Tennessee county mayors to get on board with his Insure Tennessee proposal as he also worked to persuade the GOP-led Legislature to OK his conservative take on expanding Medicaid. "It's a real opportunity to say, here's what we think health care should look like," the Republican governor explained to several dozen county leaders during their winter gathering in Nashville.