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Bonnyman says state's stance costing $1.7B
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Nashville attorney Gordon Bonnyman addresses the Rotary Club of McMinnville on Thursday. In 2003, The Tennessean newspaper named Bonnyman its Tennessean of the Year.
Tennesseans are missing some money. About $1.7 billion a year, prominent Nashville attorney and human rights leader Gordon Bonnyman told McMinnville Rotarians on Thursday.Not only is that money going to other states, but people are suffering, going bankrupt -- and dying -- because the state legislature has rejected the healthcare benefits offered by the Affordable Care Act, known by its unofficial name Obamacare.Bonnyman, co-founder of the Tennessee Justice Center, said the money that would support Medicaid expansion in the Volunteer State -- as proposed by Gov. Bill Haslam under the name Insure Tennessee -- is already being collected from the state’s residents in the form of income taxes and cutbacks in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals.