Nashville, TN. – Tennessee’s Medicaid blockade began in 2014, when former state Rep. Jeremy Durham (left) and former state Sen. Brian Kelsey, both Republicans, helped pass a law that has blocked billions of federal health care dollars from helping poor and needy families. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig) A decade has passed since two state legislators launched Tennessee’s Medicaid blockade. The law remains in place. The two legislators do not. One — former state Sen. Brian Kelsey of Germantown — was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2022 for violating federal campaign finance laws. His sentence was upheld in July, though Kelsey…
