Press Releases
‘Save tens of thousands of Tennesseans’
Tenn. Doctors Plead for Stay-at-Home Order with State Model Predicting Up to 40,000 Deaths NASHVILLE — (Tuesday, March 24, 2020)…
Gov. Bill Lee Should Order Whole State to Shelter in Place, Tenn. Doctors Say
Responding to Gov. Lee’s Executive Order, Medical Professionals Urge Further Action NASHVILLE — Physicians who are responding to the COVID-19…
Dr. Phelps on the ACA Lawsuit: “I’m Ringing the Alarm”
In response to today’s arguments in the U.S. Fifth Court of Appeals on the validity of the Affordable Care Act…
It’s Women’s Health Week!
Doctors and Their Patients, Not Insurance Companies, Should Make Health Care Decisions Women’s Health Week evaluates the state of women’s…
This Year’s Excuse to Not Expand Medicaid: Block Grants
Block Grants Would Cut, Not Increase Medicaid Funding Sandra Rice, a retired nurse practitioner and volunteer in a rural free…
5 Things to Know About the Medicaid Block Grant Proposals
What Block Grants Are and What They Are Not Rep. Timothy Hill, R-Blountville, proposed block grant legislation (HB 1280) as…
Gov. Bill Lee Misses the Mark on Mental Health
KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Dr. Eric Harman, a family medicine doctor in Kingsport, issued the following state in response to Governor…
Dr. Harman: Let This Be The Last Hospital Closure
KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Dr. Eric Harman, a family medicine physician at Mountain Region Family Medicine in Kingsport, issued the following…
Those Who Know Health Care Best Say the Judge’s ACA Ruling is the Worst
“Misguided and Wrong”: Those Who Know Health Care the Best Say That the Judge’s Ruling on the Affordable Care Act…
Dr. Phelps on Texas Judge Striking Down ACA
TULLAHOMA, Tenn. – In response to tonight’s ruling by a Texas judge that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is unconstitutional, Dr.…