This section works to further the knowledge of its members in federal, state and local health care law. The section also sponsors the nationally known annual Health Law Forum, as well as the primer course for attorneys new to the health law practice.
Oklahoma's Attorney General is suing to get his state exempted from a portion of the Affordable Care Act, the Tennessee Watchdog reports, while Tennessee's AG is watching to see how that maneuver plays out, a spokeswoman tells the Watchdog. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt argues that states not opting to create their own health exchanges -- including Tennessee, Oklahoma and 31 others -- don’t have to participate in the employer mandate, a tax on business owners.
A coalition that includes the Tennessee Nurses Association, Tennessee League of Women Voters, Tennessee Health Care Campaign and the Tennessee Justice Center delivered to Gov. Bill Haslam an online petition with more 4,500 signatures urging the governor to offer TennCare services to everyone making 138 percent of the federal poverty level or less, the Tennessean reports. “I don’t care whether the governor calls it Haslamcare or tweaks some changes,” said Mary Headrick, the Tennessee physician who delivered the petition. “We really want these folks to be covered and our services to be preserved.”