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ments, he has portrayed his opposition as a principled stand in
favor of fiscal prudence. Yes, he
says, the costs are to be borne by
Washington initially, but the states
have to pick up a share.
“This is not free health care,”
Jindal said last summer during
a conference call with reporters,
adding that the Medicaid expansion would cost Louisiana $3.7 billion over the first decade.
Obamacare proponents dispute
such accounting as both flawed
and incomplete.
Expanding Medicaid nationally
under Obamacare would increase
total state costs by just 2.9 percent, or $76 billion in total between 2013 and 2022, according
to research conducted by The Urban Institute and published by the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
The federal government would
cover the rest of the r