EXPEL BYRD FOLLOW-UP: Despite promising an investigation, @StateRepCurcio says a NEW BILL is required to bring the matter of admitted child sex abuser Rep. Byrd to the Judiciary committee.
He told us to “go back and watch the video” — so we did👇🏽 — you be the judge. @stopbyrd pic.twitter.com/iVMnt7PCCG
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 23, 2020
1 of 9 TN babies are born pre-term. Our Infant mortality is that of a 3rd world country. Most pregnant/new moms work. Tamara Currin of March of Dimes and Elizebeth Gedmark told the TN SENATE this week we need A PREGNANT WORKERS ACT – as 27 states have – to help moms in the workplace.
WATCH: “PROTECTING PREGNANT WORKERS”
1 of 9 TN babies are born pre-term. Our Infant mortality is 😢. Most pregnant/new moms work.
Tamara Currin of @MarchofDimes & @egedmark tell the TN SENATE we need A PREGNANT WORKERS ACT – as 27 states have – to help moms in the workplace.🤰🏻 pic.twitter.com/eeqKjeXdAe
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 23, 2020
Watch Lee & announce his “comprehensive pro-life legislation” – despite bumbling on details.
TN Dems call it “extreme & divisive”, “unconstitutional”, say it does nothing to help TN’s health care crisis.
It will lead to costly lawsuits. TN’s maternal mortality rate is 3rd world, yet Lee refuses $1 BILLION/year in Medicaid expansion funds. That isn’t pro-life.
WATCH a health care pricing expert tell the TN House Insurance Committee health care costs – particularly hospital costs – far outpace inflation, PRICE VARIANCE is a huge problem… but NOT with Medicare & Medicaid. #M4A #ExpandMedicaid
It’s almost like downward pressure on costs is a good thing.
Of course, the legislators only see it as those programs offer lower reimbursement rates – but at least everyone is covered, and as we learn from this expert’s testimony often the hospital prices are skyrocketing to make up for uncompensated care — which means Tennessee not expanding medicaid and rejecting $1 Billion each year IS COMING OUT OF OUR POCKETS ANYWAY.
NEW: “OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS BROKEN”
WATCH a health care pricing expert tell the TN House Insurance Committee health care costs – particularly hospital costs – far outpace inflation, PRICE VARIANCE is a huge problem… but NOT with Medicare & Medicaid. #M4A #ExpandMedicaid pic.twitter.com/dzc7vnK8rn
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 22, 2020
From the TN HOUSE INSURANCE COMMITTEE yesterday… Hospital service costs are increasing at 5x inflation:
Hospital price variance is wild, depending where you go (less competition = higher cost – hello Ballad Health!) the “equivalent of paying $14 PER GALLON for a tank of gas”
“We can’t win without Rutherford County… we need to shake things up.”
FULL INTERVIEW (CLIP BELOW):
CLIP: “There’s incredible opportunity in Rutherford County… until we do the hard work in places we’re not expected, we’re spinning our wheels.” @TNPowerTogether @womensmarch organizers on why the MARCH SATURDAY is in Murfreesboro.
FULL VIDEO/PODCAST: https://t.co/AKxvdka5RN pic.twitter.com/bqySKdY268
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 16, 2020
Despite a SHOCKING AUDIT & WITNESS TESTIMONY revealing TN’S PRISONS/CORE CIVIC misreport deaths/abuse, mistreat inmates – Core Civic donation recipient Sen. Kerry Roberts & the TN GOP vote to do nothing, extend the Dept 4 years.
Watch the HIGHLIGHTS:
WATCH Senator Paul Rose’s bill to permit taxpayer-funded discrimination pass the Senate, making TN a less welcoming place that doesn’t put the best interests of kids first.
Governor Lee will sign it despite having an LGBT sibling. 🏳️🌈
You’ve probably heard that yesterday the TN Senate started off the legislative session by passing a bill which targets LGBT people and allows state-supported adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBT people.
The bill will now head to Governor Lee’s desk, and Lee has said he will sign it.
What you may not know is Governor Lee’s own sister is married to a woman, and therefore is a part of the LGBT community targeted by his party’s bill.
Here’s @ScoopNashville’s tweet about Cynthia Lee’s wedding:
And here’s Cynthia Lee with Bill’s wife Maria outside his campaign headquarters in Franklin:
Tennessee is #1 in medical bankruptcies, #2 in rural hospital closures, gets an “F” in education funding, and has the maternal mortality rate of a third world country… yet this is what the TN GOP and Bill Lee are focused on?
Here’s how they voted — GREEN means they voted for the bill. Red against.
Cynthia and her wife deserve to be treated just like everyone else in America, and should not be targeted and made to feel less than by our laws.
This adoption bill is especially ugly because it would have the effect of robbing loving homes from children who might otherwise not be able to find one.
If you agree Governor Lee should VETO THIS BILL, Holler at him HERE.
Holler co-founder Justin Kanew talks to White House Middle East advisor during the Iran Deal Daniel Benaim about how Trump made the Iran situation more dangerous, and put Americans in harm’s way unnecessarily.
PODCAST ON ITUNES
FULL FACEBOOK LIVE INTERVIEW
CLIP: “I get what’s in it for him… what’s in it for us?”