Federal Medicaid officials and the state's attorney general on Tuesday confirmed that Tennessee could end Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to cover 200,000 low-income people without penalty. Attorney General Herbert Slatery, who was Haslam's chief legal adviser before being named attorney general last year, said in a legal opinion that the state "would retain the ability to suspend or terminate the demonstration program" as long as it provides proper notice and phase-out procedures. But Slatery said his office lacks "sufficiently specific information" to determine how long it would take to process 200,000 people off the state's health care rolls.
