A reader in Louisiana shows how the budget cuts affect the neediest persons in the state:
Louisiana is in the top 5 for cancer deaths, infant death, and AIDS.
Baton Rouge, the capital is #1 in America for new AIDS infections.
And the busline (such as it is) ends well before it reaches the new Women’s Hospital where most of the babies are delivered and women receive ob/gyn care. They have to walk from the last bus stop to the hospital down a 4-lane highway and can only get a van if they have Medicaid. It also makes parents with premature babies (high rate for that too) at Women’s walk down Airline Highway (61) if they don’t have a car to see their child. The transportation issue happened because Jindal closed down the North Baton Rouge ob/gyn clinic. He is also closing down the public hospital in April which will leave North Baton Rouge, the poorest part of the city, with NO hospital. I only wonder how long it will take for us to have a baby born on the median of this busy 4-lane.
Jindal is creating death panels by depriving the poorest neighborhoods, the ones that did not vote for him, of medical care. Lake is also so far away and has so much congestion, that the gunshot cases are likely to die on the way from North Baton Rouge, the highest murder area. The hospital (Our Lady of the Lake) that is supposed to take over for Earl K. Long, the public hospital, which does have limited public transportation is Catholic and refused to take EKL’s ob/gyn care or the prisoners. So they got to pick and choose. Jindal is Catholic.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Yes, he is turning back the hands of time, reverting our state to a time where people in poverty are kept in poverty by making sure they have little or no access to healthcare, adequate housing, a living wage, education, etc. He is trying to raise the regressive sales tax, while awarding billions in tax cuts to corporations. He has turned away millions in federal funding for high speed rail travel, rural fiber optics, and healthcare that would benefit middle class and those in poverty. He is removing accreditation for schools and certification for teachers in an effort to de-professionalize public education. All of these things target families living in poverty.
Bobby Jindal’s verbiage is merely rhetorical triangulation, a la Bill Clinton, but from the right… attempting to make a silk purse out of a Republican sow’s ear… It won’t wash….
…and though Jindal too was a Rhodes Scholar, apparently rhetorical twists and logic elided his academic experience at Oxford — where I suspect they masticated him up and expressed him out….
When did we become a culture of cruelty? Why do we collectively embrace policies that beat down and bully the least among us? Have legalized forms of shunning become our national punishment for the poor and disabled? Can someone explain this to me? Where is our national sense of equality and justice? When did we lose the ability to feel compassion and empathy?