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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'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'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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<p>If our neighbors east of the Sabine are looking healthier these days, there'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'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>
<p><a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Poor-policy-9142109.php">MORE>></a></p>