Health Care Compact, Tennessee
5-2-2012
Tuesday, May 1, began as a bright day for the Health Care Compact in Tennessee but ended in dark clouds as a bill authorizing the Volunteer State to enter a health care compact failed to win enough votes to ensure passage.
In the end, the bill was done in by a small group of Republican legislators who abstained from the final vote. Joe White, with Nashville Public Radio station WPLN, scooped other media outlets that had prematurely reported the...
