Clara Clark is a resident of Montgomery County, Tennessee, where she spends her days in charge of toddlers, “Clarksville’s cutest residents,” she says. Ms. Clara moved to Clarksville three years ago, following her daughters from California. She couldn’t live in California without them. Now, she’s forced to choose to be near her family or have affordable healthcare. In California, Ms. Clara worked in the aerospace field—testing the brakes on planes, helicopters, and utility pl

Across the country, Americans feel the healthcare affordability crisis. Emergencies are expensive for uninsured people, and even those who are insured face high costs for various treatments and prescriptions. In Tennessee, approximately 10% of the population is uninsured (700,000 people), 1.4 million people are on Medicaid , 600,000 are insured through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace , and the rest are privately insured. Nearly three million Tennesseans—those uni