The two dozen ministers, doctors, nurses and public health advocates who trekked by bus to Baton Rouge to beseech Gov. Jindal to accept the federal expansion of Medicaid knew they were unlikely to prevail. The governor has only grown more resistant over the past year to accepting the infusion of Medicaid dollars offered under President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
But the group felt compelled to try. "It's a crucially important thing," said Dr. Don Erwin, the founder and CEO of the St.