http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/bobby-jindal-withdraws-request-for-obamacare-funds-95773.html?hp=l6
Gov. Bobby Jindal, a fierce Obamacare critic, pursued funds from an under-the-radar program in the health law until this week, when his administration reversed course, citing cumbersome federal rules.
Health aides to the Louisiana governor began eyeing the program – a long-term care reform effort called Community First Choice – last year and went as far as submitting a formal application to CMS. But officials say they withdrew the application Monday because complicated federal stipulations would have undermined their efforts and likely led to lawsuits.
And Jindal’s not the only prominent Republican governor to take a look at the program. Fellow Obamacare foe and 2016 talker Gov. Rick Perry has also sought cash from the health law initiative, defending that decision Tuesday as the right policy move for his constituents.
the only fear Jindal has is from his own party for bucking their obstructionist agenda, it's ashame when politicians that are pledged and payed to look out for you and your interest fall subject to fringes of their party with an opposite agenda, just to get re-elected,
do we need those kind of people with two faces one to get your vote then the real one who does not uphold his pledge of office, when you put re-election before fore you job description why should you be elected even once you are out for you not "we the people".
“This is a great example of an area where [CMS] wasn’t being flexible to work with the states to make it work for us,” said Calder Lynch, policy director for Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals. “If CMS changes its position in a way that makes sense for Louisiana, we would revisit it. At this time, we haven’t seen any indication of that.”The program boosts states’ Medicaid match rate by 6 percentage points for certain long-term care services for the elderly and disabled, encouraging community- or home-based care for thousands of Medicaid-eligible patients.“After consultation with CMS to better understand the statutory provisions that states are required to meet, Louisiana decided to withdraw their current CFC application,” CMS spokesman Brian Cook said. “However, the state is welcome to resubmit their application for the CFC program at any time.”Lynch said the program would force a “vast expansion” of community care services and would have overwhelmed the state’s existing infrastructure. Not to mention, he said, it would open the state up to “lawsuits which we feared would’ve resulted in us having to offer … care to far more individuals.”
think about it the gov't is willing to work with anyone who is ready to implement the program republican states as well, so with a helping hand the overwhelming becomes elephant dung and just a lie for him to comply with his party and deny the Pres. his signature achievement and you and the people of LA. health care does that strike you as your Governor looking out for his people or cowardly hiding under his desk from the T-Party? as far as offering care to more people that's the whole idea DUH, if you want to lie be man enough to say you are denying your people not that they aren't worth it because you would have to insure others.
