Affordable Car Act Archives - Louisiana Budget Project

May 30, 2019

Senate Bill 173 is no substitute for the Affordable Care Act

BATON ROUGE – A bill that is nearing final passage in the Legislature is designed to protect Louisiana health care consumers in case the Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. But Senate Bill 173 is far from a comprehensive solution to the problems Louisianans would face if the federal law is overturned.… Read more...

May 2, 2017

House budget is “Jindal on steroids”

Health care services for the poor, K-12 public school education and safety-net services for abused and neglected children are among the state services that would take big hits next year in a spending plan approved by the House budget committee in a party-line vote on Monday.

Number of the Day

$1 billion - Preliminary estimate of the amount of federal funding Louisiana could lose as result of the $235 million reduction in state funding for the Department of Health. (Source: The Times Picayune/Nola.com)

April 20, 2017

The changing mission of TOPS

The Nola.com/Times-Picayune editorial board says that if lawmakers don’t fully fund the TOPS scholarship program, low and moderate-income families should be prioritized for full awards.

Number of the Day

$2.6 billion - Medicaid costs that would be shifted from the federal government to Louisiana from 2020 - 2023 under the American Health Care Act, which House GOP leaders are signaling they want to revive. (Source: LBP analysis)