re: Open letter to Gov Bobby Jindal by Sean Illing

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3.) Not Expanding Medicaid under Obamacare

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, do the gas bags that complain about this even know the actual words of the law? The federal government only pays 100% for the first three years. After that, and increasingly each year, the state must pick up the tab. That is a huge amount of money for a state to pay.

The governor of any state is an executive. He is not elected to serve rich people or poor people or any other group at the expense of all others. Accepting medicaid expansion is a foolish decision for anyone to make, and it is a decision that fails to look at long term problems. The imbecile who wrote this needs to get educated on the subject before he spews talking points.

Bravo Jindal on not fricking your state's future budget by expanding medicaid. It's too bad many other states will find out the hard way.

I agree with all of these as well. The train would have been a money sieve from day one. Higher education needs to be more privatized. Medicaid expansion would have hurt us in just 3 years time. And the O&G industry is huge for our state. He may have a dog in the fight, but that decision wasn't just beneficial personally. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.