Gov. Bobby Jindal has designed a new Medicaid delivery system that calls for sweeping changes for treating the state’s chronically unhealthy children and adults. But the implementation has been halting, and remains halted, while the administration continues negotiations with the hospitals and doctors who are to provide the medical care, says John Maginnis. That’s a high-stakes battle. “Unhappy docs and hospital administrators elicit only so much public sympathy,” Maginnis says. “It would be another matter, during the fall election season, to have mothers with babes in arms on the Capitol steps, protesting their shabby treatment by insurance company bureaucrats.” Read the column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
