Senators Reject Jindal Health Care Cuts
Senators on the budget and health care committees said Friday that the reductions to the rates paid for Medicaid patient care were too deep and harmful to services on which the poor and elderly rely. The cuts had started Dec. 1.
A spokesman for Gov. Bobby Jindal says the administration will continue with the cuts anyway, overruling the action of the committee — a decision that could lead to a court dispute if lawmakers or providers choose to challenge the action.
The rate reductions were part of a $50 million cut that DHH made because of an internal deficit in the state's Medicaid program.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lawmakers have voted to scrap a package of cuts to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers the Jindal administration started to implement earlier this month.
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