ByĀ Tom Wilemon
Chip Caston has only one lung and is prone to pneumonia, but he spent 2014 worrying about having a heart attack, getting cancer or suffering some other health emergency.
As a veteran of the U.S. Army who did not serve until retirement, he had medical coverage only for his service-related disabilities ā an asthma condition aggravated by chemical exposure and the lingering complications from an infection in his right ankle.
In Tennessee, there are an estimated 29,000 uninsured veterans between the ages of 18 and 64. Nationwide, the largest portion of uninsured veterans are those who put their lives on the line, serving during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
These veterans are among the 280,000 people in the state who might get coverage by the end of next year if the 
legislature approves Insure Tennessee, the plan put forth by Gov. Bill Haslam for the state to get back federal Medicaid taxes that Tennesseans are already paying.
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