Drew Ferguson (R-GA) and
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and
Joni Ernst (R-IA) today reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to ensure health insurance coverage for needed treatment and procedures for individuals born with congenital anomalies or birth defects. The Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act would close a coverage gap to ensure that health plans cover medically necessary services related to a patient s anomaly or birth defect, including any serious dental and oral-related procedures that are necessary to maintaining health and overall function. Too many children born with congenital anomalies are denied coverage despite the long-term harm of such conditions. These are children like Rosie, the daughter of a family in my district who has congenital cataracts. She requires contact lenses because glasses aren t powerful enough, and without these lenses she is blind and will have no chance of ever developing normal vision, said
Brookshire, Roy Dean Saturday, January 30, 2021
Roy Dean Brookshire
Roy Dean Brookshire, 82, was surrounded by family when he passed into the presence of the Lord on January 29, 2021, at Hospice of Chattanooga.
Roy was born to Joseph and Relia Moore Brookshire on May 1, 1938, in Elizabethton, Tn. He met his wife of 57 years, Joyce Trivett, in the second grade in Piney Flats, Tn., and they were happily married in November 1957. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Chattanooga, unaware at the time that it would later become their home of more than 50 years.
Roy and Joyce made their first home in Washington, D.C., where Roy worked for the Navy Department from 1956 to 1960. He attended George Washington University before moving to Bristol, Tenn., where he graduated from ETSU with a B.S. in accounting in 1963. Upon graduation, Roy accepted a position with Arthur Andersen’s Chattanooga office. In 1977, he joined Hazlett, Lewis and Bieter as a partner and ran the fi