Leigh Guidry
May 11, 2018
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Lafayette Mayor-President Joel Robideaux joined local leaders and hospital officials in a press conference on Thursday to discuss the effects that the pending state budget cuts would have on the local community.
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78.1 percent- Louisiana’s high school graduation rate for 2017, the state’s highest ever. (Source: The Advocate)May 1, 2018
The state’s financial uncertainty has prompted Lafayette General Health to issue ‘warn’ letters of termination to nearly 800 University Hospital and Clinics employees.
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15.5 percent - Percentage of of adults in the United States without health insurance. This is nearly three percentage points higher than the adult uninsured rate at the same time in 2016 - an increase of about 4 million people. (Source: Axios)August 24, 2017
Sen. Bill Cassidy has said repeatedly that his latest health-care bill would “give power back to the states and back to patients.”