As many as 500,000 Louisiana residents — mainly working adults — won’t get government health insurance as a result of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s decision to reject a Medicaid expansion in the law overhauling the federal health care system.So tell me how Jindal's decision not to participate in expanding Medicaid makes any %#@&*$ sense at all. Why is the secretary of the DHH in hiding and refusing to comment? Greenstein will have to say something sometime. What will he say?
Jindal has said on national television that the new health care law recently found constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court is too costly and allows government to intrude too much into private lives.
Executives of the LSU-run and community hospitals voiced concern that Louisiana could suffer a “double whammy” because the new law decreases money to pay for the care of the uninsured, while increasing funding for Medicaid coverage for many of those same people. Jindal opposes state expansion of Medicaid.
Insurance executives also say they’re worried about Jindal’s opposition to setting up a state-run clearinghouse that allows consumers to shop and compare policies, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon.
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DHH Secretary Bruce Greenstein, who is Jindal’s chief public health lieutenant, declined comment again Monday.
He has refused a dozen requests for an interview about the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, since June 28.
If Louisiana expanded Medicaid, the federal government would pay 100 percent of costs for the first three years, then 95 percent for the following three years and 90 percent after that, under the provisions of the ACA. (My emphasis throughout)
The man who has the title of governor is running around the country, making a fool of himself trying to get Mitt Romney elected, and, in the meantime, leaving the Gret Stet of Loosiana in the hands of surrogates to run...the Gret Stet, which is at the bottom of the surveys in all the positives and at the top in all the negatives, and who, when he does take action, runs the state further to the ground. By the time Jindal finishes his term, the state will be underground.
Any chances for a recall. He is a disaster.
ReplyDeleteFive attempts at a recall were launched, but none were successful at reaching the required number of signatures in the allotted time period.
ReplyDeleteOnly 500K without insurance? Ah, they're probably just Mexicans taking our Amurrican jobs away. I assume you are aware of the forced-labor scandal up in Breaux Bridge: http://www.thenation.com/article/168715/big-bad-business-fighting-guest-worker-rights .
ReplyDeleteRuss, only 500,000 without insurance who would be eligible for the extension program of Medicaid. According to NOLA.com 886,000 people in Louisiana are uninsured as of last year.
ReplyDeleteYes, I read about the seafood company in Breaux Bridge. It's an ugly story.
Can Jindal be sued?
ReplyDeleteJCF, some of the laws that were passed in the recent session (vouchers for private schools, for one) are being challenged in court as unconstitutional.
DeleteNothing to do with the litigation, only with stupidity...some legislators thought only "Christian" schools would be in the program. They would not have voted for the measure had they known that schools of other faiths, such as Muslim schools, could apply.
I keep thinking of that old saw "You get the government you deserve."
ReplyDeleteI have no explanation for why people vote for the Jindals and the Perrys and the Romneys of this world. It is a puzzlement.
I keep thinking of that old saw "You get the government you deserve."
DeleteMe too, Doxy.
Jindal for Veep! That's the best chance to get him out of Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteTrue, Ormonde, but I doubt Romney will choose a person more lacking in charisma than himself. Jindal is certainly running for something on the national scene, but I'm not sure what.
ReplyDeleteIt's a strange thing about Jindal, I watched him on CNN (I think it was CNN)and I got the same impression as I always do when I see him. He looks frightened, like an abused child that expect to be hit at any moment. There never seems to be a rational for his decisions. I saw him in a program with Gov. Dean and he(Jindal) was absurd, his answers didn't even make any sense and Dean appeared a an adult who did make sense. How on earth did Jindal get elected and who pulls his puppet strings?
ReplyDeleteI was working in the parishes when this super Conservative, right- wing stuff began to take over the churches. It was impossible even then to discover what some teachers were actually teaching, but some of them were very secretive and opposed and actually refused to allow testing. At the time, one felt that something was wrong, but what? and why? At the time, curriculum in RC churches often reflected the ideals of Vatican 2, often considered "liberal". Many people who volunteered to teach were conservative-minded people who fought the ideals of Vat. 2 tooth and nail and silently taught their own ideology to the kids. Now, 20 years down the road, we r seeing people who act against their own welfare all over the country and they don't seem to have any reason based on reality, just like lemmings rushing along......It boggles the mind to see the Tea Party people, for example, opposing health care. Do they and all of their loved ones have healthcare insurance? It makes no sense, and I can't help but think that this sort of magical thinking (that denying reality such a illness and casting all responsibility on the third Person of the Trinity)was encouraged by many churches or by people in churches.
I'm starting to read Jonathan Haidt's book "The Righteous Mind" Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion in - an effort to find some answers and some peace. I guess my question is somewhat like: how do people take the words of Jesus, which are very clear and pointed, and come up with the praxis of denying healthcare and other basic rights to others, often in the name of that Jesus?
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nij, Jindal spews Republican talking points like a robot without regard for whether he is addressing the question or the subject at hand. That's why he so often doesn't make sense. He comes across to me as very strange. Perhaps he's frightened that he'll inadvertently stray from "the message". It's mind-boggling to me that anyone would vote for him, or follow his lead, or think that he is in any way fit for leadership.
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