Our governor may not like the president, but this is not about the president… It’s about providing health coverage for 240,000 Louisianans who work forty or fifty hours a week, but still make too little to qualify for assistance in the new marketplace — and too much to qualify for Louisiana’s current Medicaid.
— Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, criticizing Republican Governor Bobby Jindal for refusing to agree to expand Medicaid in the Pelican State.