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by Sam Hanna, Jr. - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
By now you've probably heard or read where Gov. Bobby Jindal said "no" to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to expand Louisiana's Medicaid program.

The money is being dangled in the state's face courtesy of the Affordable Care Act, known affectionately in some corners as Obamacare.

To surmise, the expanded Medicaid program requires states to offer Medicaid coverage, or health insurance for the poor, to individuals who currently make too much money to qualify for it or can't buy health insurance coverage from a private insurer for one reason or another. That would include those who simply can't afford to buy private health insurance or their employers don't offer it or both.

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