Medicaid enrollment has surpassed the 351,000 mark under the expansion of the program, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. Secretary Rebekah Gee says the Medicaid expansion should lead to better health outcomes for working citizens who were previously uninsured..
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Gee says they are still unclear with will happen with the expanded Medicaid program when President-elect Trump takes office.

Bayou Country Superfest announced its 2017 lineup today with big names like Brooks and Dunn and Hank Williams Jr. It’s the Memorial Day weekend concert’s first time to be held in the Superdome and BCS Producer Quint Davis expects tourism in New Orleans to be a major boost from the shows..:
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Tickets go on sale in one week.

A bill co-authored by US Senator Bill Cassidy that seeks to reform mental healthcare has passed the US House and could receive Senate approval next week. He says the bill should foster more mental health professionals, as well as create more outpatient treatment settings…:
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Cassidy says this legislation is two years in the making, with the goal of making sure patients are not denied care.

Democratic Congressman Cedric Richmond, who represents New Orleans and parts of the Baton Rouge area, has been elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Richmond was just elected to a fourth term and he will take over for US Representative G-K Butterfield of North Carolina.

And we are getting reports out of New Orleans that former prep football star and NFL player Joe McKnight was killed in Jefferson Parish in what authorities are calling a road rage incident in Terrytown.