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And onto Louisiana

by David Anderson|  November 23, 20158:41 am| 14 Comments

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Just restating what has been stated many times already this weekend, but Medicaid will be expanded in Louisiana sometime in the first quarter of 2016.

Edwards, a state lawmaker, will take over the office from term-limited Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal in January. Edwards has supported Medicaid expansion in Louisiana, which Jindal has rejected.

Details are still needed to develop an actual timeline for implementation.  Governor Elect Edwards (D-LA) has said that he will expand Medicaid by executive order on the first day that he is in office. However Louisiana has a budget crisis as it is a petro-state and oil prices have crashed.  The Louisiana legislature is still dominated by conservative Republicans and although they effectively washed their hands of Medicaid expansion by authorizing the governor to make the call, Medicaid expansion could be part of a series of negoatiations to resolve the budget crisis.  Straight up expansion would take a month or two to get the plumbing right while a 1115 waiver expansion would take longer.  I bet it will initially be straight up expansion with a March 1 enrollment start date to allow the managed care companies sufficient time to reconfigure their systems.

 

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    November 23, 2015 at 8:44 am

    Hooray!! I’ve heard that Edwards is a conservative Democrat, but at least he’s doing one thing right.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    November 23, 2015 at 8:45 am

    He needs to do it and then negotiate if necessary. It’s free money, and he just won after campaigning on this. The other side has no cards.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    November 23, 2015 at 8:49 am

    Elections matter.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    November 23, 2015 at 8:50 am

    @JPL:

    Amen.

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    November 23, 2015 at 8:51 am

    Dear Kentucky,

    Please put your Obamacare in the enclosed package and affix the proper postage.

    Thanks and good luck not dying.

    Love,

    Louisiana

  6. 6.

    MomSense

    November 23, 2015 at 9:11 am

    @JPL:

    Yup.

  7. 7.

    Chris

    November 23, 2015 at 9:18 am

    Why I want to punch every asshole who tells me it doesn’t really matter who they vote for.

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    Wordpress Developers

    November 23, 2015 at 9:34 am

    Folks,
    The site is back up, and it wasn’t us – the host upgraded the server back-end last night and didn’t test to see if the site came back up. I didn’t realize until this morning, and before I could diagnose, Mistermix had already submitted a trouble ticket. I am now going to put on the flame-retardant gear and review John’s post from late last week asking about issues.

    Some things to report – for Frontpagers, as well as Commentors and Readers:
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    6) Comments – Late last week, I briefly turned on a potential comment engine and folks hated it, especially Amir. Sorry for the confusion, but please let this serve as a warning – it may go back on temporarily in a few days for some limited testing. I’ll try to do it mid-day so hopefully less upsetting for many of the night/early morning crew. This is just to test it; the formatting is good enough for testing, even if it doesn’t have comment numbers, etc. There is no point wasting time on the formatting if I’m trying to see if the bloody thing works as it’s supposed to, and to see what kind of increase or decrease in server load it makes. It will be up for an hour or two, max, then I will disable it and return to this comment system. If it works well, we might just go with it instead of waiting for mid December when the alternate commenting plugin will have the functionality this site needs.

    I’m going to post this comment in each new thread to day to maximize the number of readers it reaches.

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  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    November 23, 2015 at 9:54 am

    @WordPress Developers:

    II’m going to post this comment in each new thread to day to maximize the number of readers it reaches.

    Isn’t there a better way to do that, like the sticky post Betty Cracker suggested?

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    November 23, 2015 at 9:55 am

    There have been rumours that this might start a domino effect in the South where Medicaid starts getting expanded in the rest of the states as Louisiana gets better. It’s definitely a wait and see for me. But it’s a huge net positive. Plus it also shows how a Democrat can win in the South.

  11. 11.

    RaflW

    November 23, 2015 at 9:58 am

    “Edwards, a state lawmaker, will take over the office from term-limited Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal”

    Term-limited and deeply unpopular Gov. Jindal, that is.

    Gov. Bobby Jindal’s unpopularity in Louisiana has reached such levels that even a majority of those in his Republican Party disapprove of his job performance at this point [Nov. 12], according to a University of New Orleans poll conducted last week.

    Just 20 percent of the poll’s overall respondents approved of Jindal’s job performance. But what might be more alarming for the governor is that the majority of Republicans questioned — 55 percent — had a negative view of his job performance.

    Just had to do a little dance on Jindal’s total collapse as a politician. I’m sure he will have plenty of RW grift to keep him housed and fed after he leaves office, so I feel less than zero pity for him.

  12. 12.

    scav

    November 23, 2015 at 10:04 am

    And here’s how some in Brussels handled a real event: meow.

    As for notices — meaningless prattle contribution alert! — I’m all for low-tech don’t risk breaking anything solutions that leave time and brain-power cycles for actual issues.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    November 23, 2015 at 10:42 am

    SO Happy for the 225,000 citizens of Louisiana who will now get access to healthcare. Someone’s life will be saved.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    November 23, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    And a sticky post with comments would let people see whether their problem had already been reported, what fix might be available, etc.

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