Jindal Would Kill to be President

[Nbadan]

i wonder how many people will die because of Jindal's political aspirations....

Baton Rouge emergency room closing shows cost of Obamacare fight
Source: McClatcy DC and Bloomberg News


A Baton Rouge, La., hospital is closing the only emergency room on the city's impoverished north side, a real-world ripple effect of the ideological clash over President Barack Obama's health care law.

The shutdown on April 1 serves as an early warning for hospitals in states like Louisiana, where Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal turned down federal money to expand the Medicaid program for the poor. Charity hospitals will lose billions of federal aid beginning late next year, a cut that was supposed to be offset as more residents were covered by Medicaid.

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In Louisiana, Baton Rouge General's Mid City hospital was already caught in that vise. It was flooded with the uninsured after a nearby charity hospital was closed. Louisiana provided a one-time injection of funds last year from the federal aid program that's about to be cut. With that money gone, the hospital is closing the emergency room.

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"The governor is putting ideology ahead of the welfare of the state," said state Rep. Alfred Williams, a Democrat from Baton Rouge. "He has an agenda and it's to run for president of the United States. And if that causes the people of Louisiana to suffer, then I believe he's OK with that."

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/03/25/260881/baton-rouge-emergency-room-closing.html

[DarrinS]

Lol, fearmongering

"The governor is putting ideology ahead of the welfare of the state," said state Rep. Alfred Williams, a Democrat from Baton Rouge. "He has an agenda and it's to run for president of the United States. And if that causes the people of Louisiana to suffer, then I believe he's OK with that."

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Lol, fearmongering


bullshit, every Repug gov refusing to expand Medicaid has 1000s of suffering and dead on his hands.

[DMX7]

bullshit, every Repug gov refusing to expand Medicaid has 1000s of suffering and dead on his hands.

Not if they turn a blind eye to it, pretend it never happened and put their fingers in their ears and scream "alalalalaala, I can't hearrr you".

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Repug Death Panel news:
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/26/1373411/-Baton-Rouge-hospital-closes-ER-thanks-to-Piyush-Jindal)
Baton Rouge hospital closes ER thanks to Piyush Jindal (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/26/1373411/-Baton-Rouge-hospital-closes-ER-thanks-to-Piyush-Jindal)


A Baton Rouge, La., hospital is closing the only emergency room on the city's impoverished north side, a real-world ripple effect of the ideological clash over President Barack Obama's health care law. (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/03/25/260881/baton-rouge-emergency-room-closing.html)The shutdown on April 1 serves as an early warning for hospitals in states like Louisiana, where Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal turned down federal money to expand the Medicaid program for the poor. Charity hospitals will lose billions of federal aid beginning late next year, a cut that was supposed to be offset as more residents were covered by Medicaid.
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In Louisiana, Baton Rouge General's Mid City hospital was already caught in that vise. It was flooded with the uninsured after a nearby charity hospital was closed. Louisiana provided a one-time injection of funds last year from the federal aid program that's about to be cut. With that money gone, the hospital is closing the emergency room.


Let's review the way Medicaid expansion was supposed to work.

First, Medicaid reduced the amount of money hospitals will be reimbursed for providing health care to people whose income falls below a certain level.

At the same time, by expanding Medicaid eligibility, more people will be insured, having two effects. (1) Insurance payments will offset the loss of payments to the hospital; and (2) because people now have medical insurance, they will establish a relationship with a physician thereby staying healthier and avoiding emergency room visits because untreated illness can be caught early.

In (Republican-controlled) states where Medicaid expansion was not enacted, hospitals are feeling a huge pinch and, very likely, this closing in Baton Rouge is only the beginning of a nationwide trend.

In fact, here in Virginia, Lee Regional Medical Center in Pennington Gap -- the only medical center serving a mountainous region with a mostly poor, elderly population -- closed a year ago for the same reason.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/26/1373411/-Baton-Rouge-hospital-closes-ER-thanks-to-Piyush-Jindal?detail=facebook_sf

Thanks, Repug Death Panels!

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IBM cancels Louisiana ribbon cutting due to Bobby Jindal's anti-LGBT executive order (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1395571/-IBM-cancels-Louisiana-ribbon-cutting-due-to-Bobby-Jindal-s-anti-LGBT-executive-order)

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal really rolled out the red carpet to IBM. After executives of one of the state's newest and most notable tech companies voiced vehement opposition to a proposed "religious freedom" bill in the state, Jindal signed an executive order (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/20/1386324/--Bobby-Jindal-doubles-down-on-Mike-Pence-s-antigay-strategies-for-success) modeled after the anti-LGBT measure, which had stalled in the legislature.

IBM executives, in turn, cancelled a Monday ribbon cutting that was supposed to celebrate the opening of its new National Service Center (http://www.nola.com/business/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2013/03/do_not_publish_yet_ibms_baton.html), which is bringing 800 jobs to Baton Rouge. Andre Moreau reports (http://www.wafb.com/story/29366301/ibm-cancels-ribbon-cutting-because-of-gov-jindals-executive-order):


The event on June 22 had been reserved for months, according to several city leaders, including Davis Rhorer, executive director of the Downtown Development District. The technology giant IBM voiced "strong opposition" to Louisiana's so-called religious freedom legislation as far back as mid-April.

In a letter to the governor, IBM executives said the legislation cut at the very heart of what their company stands for, equal rights and opportunity for everyone, discrimination for no one. The letter implored Jindal not to support any agenda that protected discrimination against LGBT people.


Jindal, naturally, did exactly the opposite.Bobby Jindal—one smart dude. Hard to believe his presidential bid isn't gaining much traction.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1395571/-IBM-cancels-Louisiana-ribbon-cutting-due-to-Bobby-Jindal-s-anti-LGBT-executive-order?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

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Jindal Demands Congressman Resign Over Extramarital Kissing, But Defended Prostitute-Hiring Senator

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) called for Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) to resign his House seat, after a videotape surfaced of the freshman Congressman kissing a married woman who is not his wife. But in 2007, Jindal defended Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) when he was revealed to be a client of a DC prostitution service.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/04/10/3425519/vitter-jindal-mcallister/

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Vitter Leads in 2015 Governor's Race Poll; Jindal Disapproval Rating at 63%

http://www.myarklamiss.com/story/d/story/vitter-leads-in-2015-governors-race-poll-jindal-di/11766/xJ6i-IN8uEGmkcKIrZyj1w

[CosmicCowboy]

The medicaid expansion in Obamacare was ultimately designed to push more of the cost to the state by promising the politically popular "something for nothing" for a few years before scaling back the federal money.

[boutons_deux]

The medicaid expansion in Obamacare was ultimately designed to push more of the cost to the state by promising the politically popular "something for nothing" for a few years before scaling back the federal money.

Poor people are suffering for years AT GREAT EXPENSE TO TAXPAYERS and dying years EARLY (hooray!! say conservatives, the sooner the blacks and browns die, the better, and cheaper for us Euro-Americans) because US's for-profit health racket is exorbitantly expensive. But all you rightwing Ayn-Randian mofos care about is YOUR $$$, not people. America! Fuck yeah! Americans? Fuck 'em.

[Th'Pusher]

The medicaid expansion in Obamacare was ultimately designed to push more of the cost to the state by promising the politically popular "something for nothing" for a few years before scaling back the federal money.

What does it scale back to, 90%?

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• The Federal Government pays 100% of expansion costs for the first three years and 90% thereafter until 2022.

• Cost is the most cited reason for not expanding Medicaid. While current Medicaid programs do cost state taxpayers a lot of money, that spending is balanced by unpaid hospital bills and the effect those bills have on the rising costs of premiums.

http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacares-medicaid-expansion/

[m>s]

Boutons when do you announce your presidential bid? You running on the communist ticket

[boutons_deux]

BJ's in, yet another NASTY fnkn CATHOLIC

Bobby Jindal Blurs The Lines Between Policy and Religion

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (http://gov.louisiana.gov/) (R) is set to formally announce his intention to run (http://www.bobbyjindal.com/announcement/) for the Republican presidential candidacy later this afternoon. Known for his conservative Catholic beliefs born out of a conversion (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bobby-jindal-raised-hindu-uses-christian-conversion-to-woo-gop-base-for-2016-run/2014/05/12/c446fa34-d989-11e3-8009-71de85b9c527_story.html)from Hinduism at the age of 16, Jindal has exercised his religious rights alongside his governmental roll, including calling (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/24/at-controversial-prayer-rally-jindal-calls-for-spiritual-revival/) for a “spiritual revival” to “fix what ails our country” during a highly controversial prayer rally hosted by the American Family Association earlier this year.

Although the event was identified as separate from his political responsibilities, Jindal has a significant history of tying conservative religious ideology into his political work. Here are five examples of Jindal’s most controversial legislative and ideological moves:

Approved The Inclusion of Unverified Scientific Theories in Public School Education

The Louisiana Science Education Act (http://ncse.com/files/08_la_sb733-amend.pdf)was signed into action during Jindal’s first year in office. The bill encourages the fostering of “critical thinking” by diversifying science education away from standard scientific consensus into other ambiguously described alternative theories, including allowing educators to provide their own teaching and reading materials at their own discretion.
Although religion is not explicitly stated in the legislation, critics of the bill believe it was as an agent of Jindal’s publicly held desire to further integrate traditional Christian values, particularly through the use of the creation theory. “I think that local school districts, not the federal government, should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics,” Jindalsaid (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/24/bobby-jindal-republican-creationism-2016-election) at a Christian Science Monitor event last September. “I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.”

Took Excessive Action to Protect Discrimination Against the LGBT Community

Under the pretense of protecting religious liberty, the proposed Marriage and Conscience Act (https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=937123)sought to prevent the state from taking legal action against acts of sexual orientation discrimination including refusal of service or sale in a business setting. The bill also worked to ban future marriage equality legislation. The act was eventually struck down (http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/louisianas_religious_freedom_b.html) at the House level, but Jindal didn’t stop there. Last month, Jindal issued an executive order (http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/gov_bobby_jindal_issues_religi.html) to enact the majority of the intents of the original bill.

Expresses Anti-Islamic Immigration Sentiments

In January, Jindal received significant backlash (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-sophisticated-bigotry-of-bobby-jindal/384997/) for his anti-Islamic immigration sentiments shared on the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch (http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=RADIO) radio show. Jindal expressed fear of an Islamic takeover and imposition of Sharia Law in the U.S. “If they want to come here and they want to set up their own culture and values that’s not immigration, that’s really invasion if you’re honest about it,” Jindal said on-air.

In an address (http://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleID=4805)to London’s Henry Jackson Society, Jindal stated (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-sophisticated-bigotry-of-bobby-jindal/384997/) that it is, “completely reasonable” for the U.S. to, “discriminate between allowing people into their country who want to embrace their culture, or allowing people into their country who want to destroy their culture, or establish a separate culture within,” when referring to “non-assimilationist Muslims.” Jindal has since taken to Fox News to rebuke (http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/03/19/bobby-jindal-responds-to-criticism-from-muslim-activists/)these claims.

Refuses to Enforce Comprehensive Sex Education In State Education Curriculum

Jindal has been an outspoken critic of sex ed. curriculum, describing (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/louisiana-sex-education-patricia-smith-_n_4979641.html)sex education as, “decisions that are best made by parents and local communities, not state government.” Last year, Jindal signed a bill which restricts certain groups, including Planned Parenthood (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/jindal-to-sign-package-of-legislation-restricting-sex-education-and-safe-legal-abortion) from providing in-school sex education, which is non-compulsory and extremely limited to begin with. In Louisiana, teachers are required to stick to abstinence-based education, and bills (http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/04/bobby_jindal_has_concerns_abou.html) which have advocated for a more comprehensive approach including topics such as contraceptives and STIs, have been consistently shot down.

Maintains Anti-Abortion Policy, Hampers Developments in Family Planning

Jindal has held his pro-life views close, continuing Louisiana’s history of strict abortion restrictions and few accessible family planning options. According to the Guttmacher Institute (https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/sfaa/louisiana.html), as of January 13, 2015 women wishing to seek an abortion the state will be required to undergo significant counseling including information intended to discourage the procedure, health insurance provided through the Affordable Care Act state exchange may not cover abortions, and women must undergo an ultrasound, and have the image shown to them, before receiving an abortion. According to a survey (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/06/09/3667498/abortion-rates-decline/)released by the Associated Press earlier this month, Louisiana is one of only two states who has not seen a decrease in abortion rates since 2010.

The governor has been on heightened defense regarding abortion rights as of late, responding (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/24/jindal-religious-beliefs-between-us-and-god-not-us-and-hillary/) to Hillary Clinton’s recent Women in the World Summit address as “crazy talk,” stating that, “religious beliefs are between us and God, not us and Hillary Clinton.” During her keynote address last month, Clinton commented (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTiAJ1e9SM) on the state of women’s reproductive health. “Rights have to exist in practice, not just on paper,” she said. “Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/06/24/3673674/bobby-jindal-blurs-lines-policy-religion/

[m>s]

Tl;dr

[JohnnyMarzetti]

He does know how to use a tragedy to his advantage.

[Nbadan]

Jindal Writes Letter To Obama Telling Him Not To Talk About Climate During Katrina Anniversary Visit

by Katie Valentine at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/27/3695968/jindal-katrina-climate-change/


"SNIP.................


Jindal, who’s also running for president on the Republican ticket, sent a letter to Obama Wednesday urging the president not to mention climate change during his trip to Louisiana.

“Although I understand that your emphasis in New Orleans will – rightly – be on economic development, the temptation to stray into climate change politics should be resisted,” Jindal states in the letter. “While you and others may be of the opinion that we can legislate away hurricanes with higher taxes, business regulations and EPA power grabs, that is not a view shared by many Louisianians. I would ask you to respect this important time of remembrance by not inserting the divisive political agenda of liberal environmental activism.”

This week, Jindal writes in the letter, should be solely about mourning those lost in the storm and celebrating the recovery New Orleans has made so far.

But Obama had a different plan for his time in New Orleans. The trip is the second stop in his 11-day climate tour, a trip that started at the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas and will end in Alaska. Along the way, Obama is planning on speaking about the country’s need to invest in renewable energy, protect coastal communities, and be part of a global effort to address climate change.

This is is why Jindal has lower favorability numbers in Louisiana than Obama

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I suppose BJ would like Obama to have talked about: search "charter school failure new orleans", like charter school scammers are failing everywhere.