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Failure to expand Medicaid is unconscionable.
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<p><a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/"><em>Houston Chronicle</em></a> August 14, 2016</p>
<p>If our neighbors east of the Sabine are looking healthier these days, there&#39;s a reason. Since changing governors in January, more than 265,000 Louisianans without health insurance now can visit a doctor for checkups, schedule long-delayed screenings, make a dental appointment and guarantee their kids are getting the preventive care they need to thrive. That&#39;s because the new governor, John Bel Edwards, signed an executive order on his second day in office that made Louisiana the 31st state to expand Medicaid health insurance.</p>
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