TennCare Work Requirement Hits A Snag

WPLN | By Chas Sisk

Published March 25, 2018 at 6:13 PM EDT

House Speaker Beth Harwell has made passing a work requirement for TennCare one of her biggest priorities this year.

The Tri-Star State — A Tennessee Politics Podcast — Week of March 25, 2018

A state law that would demand a work requirement for certain people on TennCare appeared to be on track last week before it hit a snag.

The proposal had passed the state House and Governor Bill Haslam said he was ready to sign it. But a final vote in the state Senate was delayed at the very last minute.

Now it's unclear whether it will pass.

In this week's edition of the Tri-Star State, Nashville Public Radio's Jason Moon Wilkins and statehouse reporter Chas Sisk explain the maneuvering and some of the politics behind it.

Chas Sisk

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons

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