Mallorie Hatcher

Mom, Occupational Therapist, Advocate

[Elena Hung (she/her) @ElenaHung202]

Asking the internet to consider donating their kidney to my baby is very weird, but ... well, we really, really need a kidney.🙏

Are you Type A or Type O blood, 21 - 45 years old, in good overall physical health, and want to help? If so, please reach out!
https://t.co/R8R6LKK1Ev

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

@tjedlowski I hope they can continue to thrive, the other options are scary.

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

@tjedlowski We have one mom and pop shop left in East Tennessee, I highly recommend this company to all my patients in need of a WC. The difference in customer service and time of repair is BIG.

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

Thankful this passed, while also angry this was still a thing happening in 2022.

[Tennessee Disability Coalition @tndisability]

HB2078 / SB2042 has passed, ending sub-minimum wage for Tennesseeans with disabilities! Thank you for advocating and supporting this bill. It takes #TeamWorkTN!

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityAdvocates #TNLeg

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

@tjedlowski #nailedit Thank you Tom for being an awesome advocate

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

I felt so validated hearing a fellow parent say,"I never needed anxiety medication until this." Tennesee has somehow created a version of Katie Beckett that has many parents more stressed out trying to cut through red tape to utilize a benefit than they were without.

[Tom Jedlowski @tjedlowski]

Stellar reporting from @JeffKeeling12 and @amycockerhamtv of @WJHL11. Thank you both for lifting these voices. "...Claire would be expressing herself better by now but for what she describes as an incompetent and frustrating rollout of Tennessee’s #KatieBeckett waiver." Link in🧵

[Tom Jedlowski @tjedlowski]

Official response from @TNDisability regarding Katie Beckett program: "There are few programs more important to get right than a state’s Katie Beckett program. It’s been 40 years since Reagan created this program for working families, and 49 other states have figured ...."

[Melissa Brown @itsmelissabrown]

Nolan Hatcher's primary doctors and insurance approved a human growth hormone drug that helps the 8-year-old, undersized since birth, with much-needed growth. But his secondary insurance through Tennessee's Katie Beckett program denied it.

https://t.co/g6XlzjiHmz

[Liam Adams @liamsadams]

Tennessee families with complex medical needs are trying to sort through major flaws in a new secondary insurance program. @itsmelissabrown looks at how and why that is. https://t.co/56qYAb3mEM

[Melissa Brown @itsmelissabrown]

Under Tennessee's new Katie Beckett program, Scott Faver's family has been approved for months for 40 hours/month of a home health aide. Faver's daughter lives with Angelman syndrome and requires intensive care in the home.

They've gotten an aide once.
https://t.co/g6XlzjiHmz

[Tennessean @Tennessean]

Some Tennessee families say the state's Katie Beckett program is tangling vulnerable children in red tape and unnecessary bureaucracy.https://t.co/J9o6F0uq5t

[Tennessee Disability Coalition @tndisability]

"Where are we putting the dollars that are supposed to be directed towards those families? Are we doing this in the best system possible, or have we perhaps missed the mark on how to make this a better situation for families who are in dire need?"

[Keith Sharon @KeithSharonTN]

@itsmelissabrown did a great job ripping the cover off the Katie Beckett program in Tennessee. Please read this story, and please help do something about it. https://t.co/dmdREIgJI5

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

@tjedlowski When Tennessee snuck the Block Grant in it felt like a big throat punch. Tennessee continues to sit on money at the expense of individuals with disabilities.

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

@duanegang @itsmelissabrown @Tennessean The excess budget continues to be at the expense of our children 🙁

[Tom Jedlowski @tjedlowski]

Key detail, indeed. Is it a part of shared savings with the Fed under the #BlockGrant? 🤔 Of which, we were assured there would be a carve-out for #KatieBeckett? If that's true, it's exactly what we warned families about. It's easy to save money if you just sit on it.

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

@duanegang @itsmelissabrown All while children in the program continue not get their individualized medically necessary needs met 🙁
#dobettertennessee

[Mallorie Hatcher @MallorieHatcher]

Thank you @itsmelissabrown

[Duane Gang @duanegang]

Important reporting from ⁦@itsmelissabrown⁩ | Tennessee families tangled in Katie Beckett program red tape worry funds are going unspent https://t.co/RcIBocPfzs via @tennessean

[Duane Gang @duanegang]

Important reporting from ⁦@itsmelissabrown⁩ | Tennessee families tangled in Katie Beckett program red tape worry funds are going unspent https://t.co/RcIBocPfzs via @tennessean