[StBernard] Does Bobby Have Any Shame?

Westley Annis Westley at da-parish.com
Thu Sep 20 23:45:51 EDT 2007


Exactly, Deb
Cindy Meyers

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I might be one of the few who have a good memory to recall it was
President
Bill "I feel your pain" Clinton who made drastic cuts to the
Medicare/Medicaid system. Louisiana's funding for the program comes
strictly from Washington, DC. Medicaid is a "federal" program that
is
administered on the state level.

When Washington DC and Clinton cut funding nationally, it seriously
cut the
funds Louisiana got. As a result, I can remember Governor Foster on
tv
announcing the State would be forced to tighten the criteria to
qualify for
state Medicaid assistance. He said back then that good, deserving
people
would get cut from the program because of the severe funding cuts
from
Washington DC.

It sounds to me that Jindal only carried out the orders given to him
by his
boss Governor Foster and made sure only the most needy would be
gauranteed
of Medicaid assistance so the money would not run out. Otherwise the
system
would have gone bankrupt on each patient's needs and everyone on
Medicaid
would have been hurt by it. Maybe that's what many newspapers meant
when
they said Jindal's actions (or Foster's) actually saved the state's
Medicaid
system. I'm sure there were a lot more people than Mr. McNiece who
were
denied Medicaid assistance, but it wasn't Governor Foster or Jindal
who cut
the funding.

Remember, it was President Clinton, a democrat, who made the severe
funding
cuts to Louisiana's Medicaid system, not Governor Foster or Bobby
Jindal.
Those are the facts. Surely, the Boasso campaign has to know this.

DEB





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