Direct action in the struggle for Medicaid
http://www.lgtinc.org/articles/81/1/Direct-action-in-the-struggle-for-Medicaid
Tim Wheat
Tim Wheat is on Special Assignment with the Memphis Center for Independent Living. He designs and develops MCIL's web site MCIL.org and edits the MCIL Journal on disability rights issues. Mr. Wheat produced and managed the FreeOurPeople.org website and created Internet related media each day of the historic Free Our People march. Mr. Wheat develops and curates the National ADAPT Action Report that provides photographs, commentary and news from ADAPT Actions www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/aar/. By Tim Wheat
Published on 03/19/2006
Enrollees in the Tennessee Medicaid program, called TennCare, believed the healthcare program was a compact with the community, that their health was important, that their lives were valuable. A few TennCare enrollees believed that they had to do something to protest the cuts in enrollment and benefits Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen was instituting across the state. They felt betrayed by the governor who campaigned on the promise to “fix” TennCare.