Jindal's Totally Bogus Obamacare Attack At Center Of Billboard Feud
Engaged in all-out war with the liberal group MoveOn.org over a pro-Obamacare billboard, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has accused the organization -- and liberals in general -- of endorsing discrimination against the disabled through their support of the federal health care reform law and its Medicaid expansion.
"Liberal groups like MoveOn.org won’t say one word about caring for individuals with disabilities, or how Obamacare prioritizes coverage of childless adults ahead of the most vulnerable," Jindal wrote in an op-ed in the Shreveport Times last Thursday. "They just want to intimidate states into accepting Obamacare’s massive new spending programs."
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Jindal appears to be one of the few advancing this rhetoric, which he published earlier in another op-ed for Politico magazine titled "Obamacare Is Anything But Compassionate." The conservative Heritage Foundation also laid out the same argument in a critique of the law last November.
The theory starts with the fact that Obamacare offers enhanced federal funding, 100 percent for the first three years and never less than 90 percent after that, for states to expand Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. The expansion will generally cover childless adults, many of whom weren't previously eligible for the program. It is one of the two pillars, along with subsidized private coverage, through which the law covers the uninsured.
Jindal argues that because the law provides such generous funding, more generous than the traditional Medicaid program, to cover childless adults, it "prioritizes" that population over the disabled, many of whom are enrolled in the traditional Medicaid program. He notes in the Politico piece that, according to the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, more than half a million seniors and disabled are on state Medicaid waiting lists for home and community-based services. He writes that Obamacare would "jeopardize the care of our most vulnerable citizens" by "devot(ing) resources to covering thousands of childless adults through Medicaid, while leaving individuals with disabilities out in the cold."
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