Now You Know Medicaid Block Grants




If You Don't Know, Now You Know show

Summary: Randall Rice is a long time health care advocate & volunteer, and a Certified Application Counselor for ACA enrollees. He joins the LEAD 2020 Podcast to discuss the harm posed by the extreme and unprecedented block grant plan unveiled by Gov. Bill Lee this week. The plan would make Tennessee the first state in the country to convert federal Medicaid funding into a block grant, which caps the amount of money Tennessee can receive, jeopardizing health coverage for thousands of vulnerable citizens.