An additional 300,000 residents of Louisiana will soon have healthcare under Medicaid, thanks to an executive order signed by new Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards, who succeeded the deeply unpopular Republican Bobby Jindal on Monday.
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An additional 300,000 residents of Louisiana will soon have healthcare under Medicaid, thanks to an executive order signed by new Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards, who succeeded the deeply unpopular Republican Bobby Jindal on Monday.
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