Louisiana health care desimated by JINDAL

Just watched news and how our wonderful Govenor has all but wiped out mental health care in louisiana, obviously doesn't care about people just money. Several mental health facilities have been shut down, one that had 2,000 bed capacity. His briliant plan let community based health take over. Well we're waiting......
Unfortunatley I was hit by a stop sign runner and have some money to pay for therapy now but in a couple of months that will be gone, then what?
caution this jerk might be running for Vice President and cutting fed programs...

Louisiana got a cut in Federal funds having pretty much been decided they've recovered from Katrina and oil spills, etc., so not the Governor's fault:

http://www.dhh.state.la.us/index.cfm...om/detail/2550

The news stories I've read all support the OP.
Here is one but there are others:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...id_progra.html
And Louisiana received several hundreds of millions of federal dollars more than it should have in Medicaid funding which Jindal diverted to other parts of the state budget.
I'm not sure why the Louisiana government would be confusing federal disaster funds with Medicaid funds.
I am also not sure what you mean by "Louisiana... having pretty much been decided they've recovered from Katrina and oil spills, etc."
I doubt that Louisiana has recovered from Katrina or the BP oil spill.
I'm pretty sure Jindal is on record that he would reject stimulus money and ACA funds and would not expand Medicaid.
Despite all this Louisiana, like other "red" states, receives more "big government" federal funds than "blue" states. Hypocrisy anyone?

From: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/0...dget-blind-spo

Louisiana has a problem with spending and it's going to get worse and Jindal is not doing enough, not too much. Pretty much most states are having this problem.

Well Louisiana has a problem and Jindal is a big part of it. That much is true.
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gamb...nt?oid=2001136

Jindals whole campaign was to improve healthcare and education the two biggest cuts in his budget. He never seems to cut fund to services of the Ivory Tower they all live on. And as far as the oils spill the seafood is no where near as plentiful as before the oils spill, I know because I live in an area that is mostly fishermen. If you think Katrina monies went to just homeowners your wrong most of it went to pay people to distribute the funds . Then Jindal slowed the process by bringing in people even slower in processing applications. He later takes whats left and uses it for state projects and says the mitigation program is out of money with people still waiting. Unless your state produces something your a consumer state like in the north east(Maryland). Louisiana produces most of the energy that powers this country and a large portion of it's food, seafood just a part of it. When winter rolls around and fuel oil is ten bucks a gallon try drilling in your own state, or burning your furniture to stay warm.
Let's do this everybody take everything you own(and I mean everything) and go throw it in the ocean or what ever body of water is nearby and see how you like it. Try going to look for something and then realize it's gone because it was pre Katrina. For someone to imply that people were better of after going through the trauma of Katrina losing everything waiting years to have a place to live and then rebuilding their lives, needs to endure the same ordeal.
Also the oil companies actually made more money off the clean up than the oil they lost. Two weeks before the spill the oil recovery comp that did the work was bought by big oil.
Go to Belize and ask if they have recovered from their oil spill 20 years ago, the fish are gone and tar balls still wash ashore to this day.

FYI if the insurance companies backed by the La state dept of insurance had dealt fairly with people putting in claims, a large protion would have not needed the help from the feds or state. I was told by the adjuster for homeowners La. Citizens by the damage and the way things look, trees pointing in different directions it was also wind damage.Dopler radar indicated atleast two dozen tornadoes in my immidiate vicinity and a witness that got stuck there(ended up tied in a tree winds took all his clothes except shorts,even took his false teeth, he handed out notorized statements, insurance company threatened him to make him stop) La citizens waited till I asked if I could clear the land, are they done, they said yes. As soon as I cleared property they sent another adjuster who took pictures of the cleared slab and stated it was all flood damage. This engineer/adjuster had No experience what so ever doing surveys of damage.
I went to arbitration with the state and La Citizens, they offered $3,200 dollars for 3 windows and the ceiling in my house. I refused and they countered with 12K I refused again.
I sued and got just enough, along with money for elevating to rebuild. There was an elderly couple 70's ahead of me and they got the same raw deal they left with the 12k the standard offer.
If the state had dealt with everyone honestly a vast majority would have not needed the mitigation funds from the get go.
I also had to shell out $5,500 dollars for a new septic tank and system (old one worked just fine) because of Jindals Greener La. project.
Then Jindal steps in and takes whats left for pet projects.
St Bernard parish is empty because people didn't have money to rebuild not from the threat of flooding.
The state and buisnesses got most of the money.
Jindal also turned down funds for health care because it would have limited his control.
Jindal doesn't care about people just money and budgets...
Government of the people, by the people for the people...