Gov. Bobby Jindal blasted for refusing federal Medicaid money [View all]

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" Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell has called out Gov. Bobby Jindal for "hypocrisy" and "meanness" in his refusal to accept expanded Medicaid funding as part of President Barack Obama's health care plan. Campbell, who ran unsuccessfully against Jindal in the 2007 gubernatorial election, took aim at the governor for saying recently that he would turn down federal funding that would allow those living at up to 133 percent of the poverty level to qualify for Medicaid. For a family of four, that means a household income of about $30,650 a year.

The federal government will pay the full cost of the Medicaid expansion in the early years of the program and pick up 90 percent of the costs after that.

The governor's refusal to participate in the program is hypocritical for someone who lives on the state's dime, Campbell said. "Bobby Jindal and his family live in a three-story mansion paid for by the state," Campbell said. "He eats free, his laundry is free, he has servants and bodyguards and chauffeurs and free travel. He and his family have access to state-subsidized health care -- and yet he denies health care for hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents who cannot afford it. It's the worst form of hypocrisy."
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Campbell noted that a large portion of the state budget already comes from federal money and argued that turning down Medicaid funding for those who need it most was "mean." "We have the poorest population in the United States of America; how can anybody turn their back on them?" he asked. "

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Jindal is an embarrassment to my hometown of Baton Rouge.