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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov. Bobby Jindal blasted for refusing federal Medicaid money
" Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell has called out Gov. Bobby Jindal for "hypocrisy" and "meanness" in his refusal to accept expanded Medicaid funding as part of President Barack Obama's health care plan. Campbell, who ran unsuccessfully against Jindal in the 2007 gubernatorial election, took aim at the governor for saying recently that he would turn down federal funding that would allow those living at up to 133 percent of the poverty level to qualify for Medicaid. For a family of four, that means a household income of about $30,650 a year.
The federal government will pay the full cost of the Medicaid expansion in the early years of the program and pick up 90 percent of the costs after that.
The governor's refusal to participate in the program is hypocritical for someone who lives on the state's dime, Campbell said. "Bobby Jindal and his family live in a three-story mansion paid for by the state," Campbell said. "He eats free, his laundry is free, he has servants and bodyguards and chauffeurs and free travel. He and his family have access to state-subsidized health care -- and yet he denies health care for hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents who cannot afford it. It's the worst form of hypocrisy."
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Campbell noted that a large portion of the state budget already comes from federal money and argued that turning down Medicaid funding for those who need it most was "mean." "We have the poorest population in the United States of America; how can anybody turn their back on them?" he asked. "
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/gov_bobby_jindal_blasted_for_r.html#comments
Jindal is an embarrassment to my hometown of Baton Rouge.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)"The governor's refusal to participate in the program is hypocritical for someone who lives on the state's dime, Campbell said. "Bobby Jindal and his family live in a three-story mansion paid for by the state," Campbell said. "He eats free, his laundry is free, he has servants and bodyguards and chauffeurs and free travel. He and his family have access to state-subsidized health care -- and yet he denies health care for hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents who cannot afford it. It's the worst form of hypocrisy."
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)pacalo
(24,721 posts)tooeyeten
(1,074 posts)Typical Republican.
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)denying healthcare to poor people.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)He couldn't bring in the independent vote!
DCKit
(18,541 posts)He's either going to have to take a job with Fox, or start living like the rest of us.
How much you want to bet he doesn't even stay in LA? After all the damage he's done, life's going to be a bitch without a security detail.
magic59
(429 posts)Its simple, they will lose businesses and workers. These T-bagging govs are economic terrorists.
magic59
(429 posts)Their answer is to do nothing for over 50 million walking dead without health care. GOP bio-terrorists.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)AJTheMan
(288 posts)You had Jindal, a pro-business Republican, Boasso, a Republican turned Democrat because the state committee asked him to, and Georges. I don't remember much about Georges. I do remember that Foster Campbell was the only one who wanted to make Louisiana the most progressive state in the nation.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)With VoterID all over the nation, the elderly and poor eventually won't be able to vote the likes of this scumbag out. How convenient.
trof
(54,256 posts)spanone
(135,915 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)eom
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)along with the other perks, show everyone he is willing to take care of himself without tax payers having to pay the bill. Also he needs to get his "buddies" off the payroll also. By the birther claims he is not able to run s vp or president because both his parents was not citizens of the US at the time of his birth. It is time for the good voters learns just because of a candidates are on abortion does or does not qulify them to hold office..