Louisiana

Jindal completely dismantled healthcare in Louisiana. LSUS is just one very serious example. In Baton Rouge, they closed the Earl K Long hospital, which traditionally had served the indigent population of the city. When that hospital closed, patients began going to Baton Rouge General, the next closest hospital, because of lack of funding for the overwhelming number of indigent patients they wer receiving, that hospital closed its ER. Now patients are essentially forced to go across town for any type of emergency services and this whole situation was created by Jindal and his approach to slashing anything and everything he could get away with in the budget. The current governor is facing an uphill fight with regards to reinstituting funding for not only healthcare but other services, including the state higher education system.