tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post6399987386887829765..comments2024-03-17T08:07:12.695-05:00Comments on Between The Lines: Nevers hopes legislator, public stupidity passes expansionJeff Sadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03972004592729833310noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post-53667950115365612902014-01-26T22:55:27.426-06:002014-01-26T22:55:27.426-06:00Medicaid expansion will give health insurance to a...Medicaid expansion will give health insurance to about half the nation’s uninsured. Jeff simply doesn’t want Medicaid expansion to save money, so he reaches for whatever “study” helps his preconceived bias. Jeff teaches a class in empirically based policymaking, but all he does is just wait for marching orders from Jindal. As for DHH, two former secretaries of DHH called on Jindal to expand, and here is what a different study found (per T-P): “The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Office's analysis found that Louisiana would save between $532 million and $544 million over the first five years of the expansion.” Neither is the “study” that Jeff cites as one-sided as Jeff wants you to believe: “Gov. Jindal's own Department of Health and Hospitals found that the state would save as much as $367.5 million over the first 10 years of the expansion. DHH's worst-case scenario is that Louisiana would have to spend as much as $1.71 billion over a decade.” That Jindal isn’t honest about Medicaid “cost” doesn’t matter to Jeff, who simply wants to find some study, any study, that can somehow be construed to support whatever Jindal wants. That’s Jeff’s “empirically based policymaking.” Mr. Harris Plutocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14272042050207617611noreply@blogger.com