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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlood-Red Louisiana Just Voted To Expand Medicaid For A Quarter-Million People
With Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal spending years keeping the Medicaid expansion, which would have helped almost a quarter-million people obtain healthcare and eased his states rapidly-mounting budget issues, from his states citizens because hes a f*cking idiot, it seemed as though the people of the Pelican State would never see relief. Fortunately, David Vitter happened.
Plagued by a prostitution scandal, his closeness with failed presidential candidate and terrible governor Bobby Jindal, his decision to spy on a blogger who wrote about one of his relationship with a prostitute, and his terrible relationship with fellow Republicans, Vitters gubernatorial campaign went up in smoke, allowing Democrat John Bel Edwards to win by double-digits in the heavily-Republican state the first Democrat to win a statewide election since 2008. The damage to Vitter was so great that he announced Saturday night he will not run for re-election in the Senate in 2016.
Edwards is not perfect. Anti-abortion and extremely pro-gun, the newly-elected governor of Louisiana is much like outgoing Bobby Jindal in many ways. But for Louisiana, hes downright liberal. Earlier this year, the state legislature OKd a measure that would allow the next governor to expand Medicaid, a sign that the states residents are ready for a change, as long as that change believes a woman doesnt have the right to make decisions regarding her own body.
In September, Edwards pledged he would take advantage of this legal option on his very first day as Governor, expanding Medicaid on his very first day in office via executive order.
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Blood-Red Louisiana Just Voted To Expand Medicaid For A Quarter-Million People (Original Post)
EV_Ares
Nov 2015
OP
This is good. Information from a representative who is republican said Jindal had made a mess in
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#3
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Good to hear!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)2. A big fat K&R!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. This is good. Information from a representative who is republican said Jindal had made a mess in
Louisiana. I am glad for the folks in Louisiana.
brer cat
(24,401 posts)4. It is hard for women and minorities
to rejoice when conservatives win, but as a life-long southerner I have learned to appreciate even small victories. He is indeed a big improvement over Jindal and Vitter, and the Medicaid expansion alone is huge (I wish we had it in Georgia). My hope is that over time the election of conservative democrats will lead to moderate and liberal-leaning democrats becoming more acceptable to traditionally red-state voters.