Mary Anna (6
July 2012)
"Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal refuses to implement Obamacare despite Supreme
Court ruling"
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-refuses-implement-obamacare-despite-152429092.html
The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's health care
law on Thursday, but Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a possible
Republican vice presidential contender who has refused to
establish a federally mandated health care exchange in his
state, said Friday that he will continue to ignore it.
"We're not going to start implementing Obamacare," Jindal said
during a conference call with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
"We're committed to working to elect Gov. Romney to repeal
Obamacare."
Under the Affordable Care Act, states must set up a health
insurance exchange program by Jan. 1, 2014, and will receive
grants from the federal government to implement it. Several
Republican governors, including both Jindal and McDonnell, have
put off setting up the exchanges in the hope that the law would
be repealed or struck down by the court. Now that the law has
been upheld, Jindal said he won't change course and is looking
to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to
lead the repeal effort if he takes office in 2013.
"Here in Louisiana we have not applied for the grants, we have
not accepted many of these dollars, we're not implementing the
exchanges," Jindal said. "We don't think it makes any sense to
implement Obamacare in Louisiana. We're going to do what we can
to fight it."