A Salon.com story by Josh Eidelson reports these comments today from Bobby Jindal, speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC):
“My dad shook hands with the doctor,” said Jindal. “And he said to that doctor, ‘I’m going to pay you in full. I’m going to pay you every month as much as I can’… And that’s exactly what they did.” Jindal added, “No contracts. No paperwork. No government program. Just two guys in a hospital in Baton Rouge, shaking hands.” The crowd applauded, and then Jindal joked that he’d asked his dad “if you could pay for a baby on layaway today. I’m sure how that would work – you skip a payment, they repossess the baby?”
These are comments from the governor of Louisiana, which has the
second highest poverty rate in the nation. If any state would benefit from Obamacare, it's Louisiana.
I admit I haven't checked the facts, but is it out of line to think that his health care is paid for by the tax dollars of the same people he wants to block from getting their own?
How does this even make sense? It does if you are governor in a weak state, you don't care a bit about your constituents, and you are preparing to line your pockets with conservative PAC money to launch a bid for the presidency in 2016. Good luck with that.