Today Louisianans can start enrolling in the newly expanded Medicaid program. Governor John Bel Edwards says the expansion will provide coverage for an estimated 375-thousand Louisiana workers, and it will save money by bringing more federal dollars back to the state and reducing state spending.
More information and enrollment can be found at heathy.la.gov
A bill has been signed into law that bans a common second-trimester abortion procedure. Pro-choice advocates say a dilation and evacuation abortion is the most common and the safest second-trimester abortion procedure. But Louisiana Right to Life Legislative Director, Deanna Wallace, disagrees.
Louisiana is the sixth state to outlaw this practice.
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Final passage has been granted to a measure that allows patients direct access to physical therapists without a doctor’s referral. Opponents of the legislation believe therapists don’t have the training of a doctor and could misdiagnose health problems. But Doctor Amanda Brewer with the Louisiana Physical Therapy Association says there has been extensive research showing direct access to a physical therapist isn’t dangerous