Jindal's Fuzzy Math Is Wrong — Again

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News -> INDReporter THU, OCT 4 12:19PM by Patrick Flanagan Jindal’s fuzzy math is wrong — again IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Switch Tw eet 2 0 SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAINBEAUX UL Lafayette has kicked up a storm cloud with its LGBT Studies program. Why the fuss? Gov. Bobby Jindal’s primary argument against expanding Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Louisianans is a moot one, according to a recent YOU CAN SURVIVE THE GAY report from The New York Times. APOCALYPSE The signs are everywhere: a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies minor offered to unsuspecting Jindal, one of a handful of students... Republican governors who PARENT TRAP has vowed to reject A dysfunctional system designed to protect children from Medicaid expansion in 2014 abuse throws an Acadiana mom and her 7-year-old as allowed under the daughter into a nightmarish legal limbo. federal Affordable Care Act, BLOOD BROTHER has been adamant in his More than two months after a brutal home invasion and shooting that nearly killed him, Yousef Balbeisi is thankful stance that taxpayers in for his life, his wife and for the community that rallied to Louisiana will have to pay save him. $3.7 billion over the next 10 LUS TINFOIL FEE: $12.20 PER years if the state were to MONTH opt in to the federal Lafayette residents who fear that “smart meters” will sap program and add hundreds their vitality, scramble their brains or otherwise render them incapable of living rich, fulfilling, private lives will of thousands of Louisianans have to pay a smidgen over $12 per month to keep one to the Medicaid rolls. Many foot in the 20th century. of those residents are the Advertisement working uninsured who don’t currently qualify for Medicaid under Louisiana’s restrictive guidelines.

The $3.7 billion Jindal has calculated is tied to the Medicaid breakdown courtesy of Louisiana Budget Project law’s requirement that states gradually begin to pay in to the expansion, though it’s worth noting that the feds will cover 100 percent of Medicaid coverage for new recipients for three years, from 2014 to 2016. By 2017, the federal government will cover 95 percent, eventually capping its contribution to 90 percent by 2020.

But what hasn’t been widely reported is that states, according to The New York Times, “are free to reverse the decision [to expand Medicaid] at any time,” which means MOST READ Louisiana could opt out of the expansion when the federal government stops footing the entire bill. ARE YOU REALLY CAJUN? The Louisiana descendants of the Acadians have a rich, complex history. But being Cajun is more — and less — The Obama administration, in its push for states to participate in the expansion, says than you think. “there is no deadline” for expanding Medicaid, though “states would pay a price for SHUNICK MEMORIAL SATURDAY AT delay.” PARC INTERNATIONAL The family of 21-year-old UL student Mickey Shunick, The program’s expansion would make anyone earning 133 percent less than the federal who was killed in May by Brandon Scott Lavergne, is inviting the community to celebrate her life this Saturday poverty rate eligible. Based on the state’s current Medicaid eligibility requirements, the beginning at noon at Parc International downtown. Gates annual income for a family of three can be no more than $2,860 — and no, that’s not a open at 11:30 a.m. typo. Adults without children are also ineligible under the state’s current system. ATTORNEYS STANFORD, DOMINGUE INDICTED IN CURIOUS GOODS CASE According to a recent report prepared by the High-profile Lafayette defense attorney Daniel Stanford, nonprofit Louisiana Budget Project, Medicaid 54, and 52-year-old attorney Barry Domingue of Carencro, who practices personal injury and construction law, are expansion in Louisiana would raise the annual among 10 people indicted by a federal grand jury in an income eligibility for a family of three to $25,390, or alleged multi-state illegal synthetic drug operation. In the indictment unsealed Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Stephanie www.theind.com/news/indreporter/11607-jindals-fuzzy-math-is-wrong--again 1/2 10/8/12 Jindal’s fuzzy math is wrong — again - The Independent Media Group $14,850 for a single person. Finley says Stanford received $156,921 and Domingue $91,319 for their role in a money laundering and drug trafficking ring involving $5 million in sales of synthetic Of the estimated 400,000 Louisianans who would marijuana. become eligible for Medicaid under the 2014 GACHASSIN SLAPPED WITH $60,000 expansion, more than 240,000 have jobs, according CLEAN WATER ACT FINE to LBP. In February Gachassin settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, shelling out $60,000 to settle a Clean Water Act violation at his Fountainview residential With his popularity on the descent, Jindal’s development, a 17-acre site off Kaliste Saloom Road. It resistance to expanding Medicaid drew ire recently certainly could have been much worse for his pocketbook, as he was also cited for Clean Water Act violations at from the state’s ever-popular former-governor Wingate by Wyndham, the hotel he developed in front of Edwin Edwards. Speaking at the fourth annual the subdivision, and for the adjoining construction site called Amazing Storage. The violations date back to 2008. conference of the Louisiana Retired State Employees Association, the Advocate reports that in his critique, C’EST WHAT? LAID OFF TIMES-PIC which was infused “with a good dose of Cajun jokes STAFFER SHARES PARTING WORDS and humor,” Edwards, without saying Jindal’s name, ‘Outta here. Forever. My friends know how to contact me. You’re obviously not one of them. Have a good 3 days a railed on his missteps as governor, one being his week.’ stance on expanding Medicaid. Advertisement

Read more on Medicaid expansion here and here. Census graph courtesy of Budget Project

For more on Jindal, Edwards and the governor’s “sagging” poll numbers, click here and here.

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