An attempt to go around Gov. Bobby Jindal and put the issue of Medicaid expansion to Louisiana voters failed to clear its first legislative hurdle Wednesday.
Nevers said he plans to rewrite another bill to mirror Gov. Bobby Jindal’s alternative to the Obama health care plan promoted by the governor’s national policy group America Next.
Nevers’ Senate Bill 96 would allow the state’s voters to decide if the qualifying standards to acquire Medicaid should be expanded to include people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
“The cost to Louisiana taxpayers could reach into the billions,” said state Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Kathy Kliebert.
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