More funding for mental health & community & rural hospitals
HB 1 provides funding for health care services:
$10.3 million for 114 psychiatric beds at three hospitals for mental health services.
$139 million to help reimburse community hospitals that provide care for uninsured patients.first
significant funding provided to community hospitals in a decade.
$38 million for an increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates
$2.9 million for behavioral health services in school-based health clinics
$15.3 million to help rural hospitals
Source: State gubernatorial website, www.gov.state.la.us
Nov 11, 2006
First principles: provide for children & right to healthcare
These principles will guide my administration and they will characterize much of what we hope to accomplish in the coming years as we work together-you and I-- in a spirit of compromise and cooperation.
Educating our children is the cornerstone
of a civilized society. And so we will provide the best for our children - from early childhood through college.
Every person has a right to affordable, good-quality health care. And so we'll work to reinvent our health care system so that it serves
everyone well.
Our state's bayous, rivers and streams, our woodlands and prairies, and our coastal wetlands, are national treasures. And so we will protect and preserve them.
Every person who wants to work should be able to find a decent job.
And so we will build a stronger economy that creates good-paying jobs, rewards initiative, and encourages entrepreneurship.
