HB 334 by Rep. Tony Bacala would create a managed care system for long-term health care, requiring the state to submit a proposal to the federal government to do so no later than the beginning of the year. It mirrored SB 357 by Sen. Conrad Appel, although that set a deadline a year later.
But Bacala said to the House Health
and Welfare Committee that he would pull the bill, because the debate and
actions surrounding Appel’s bill indicated it could not get through the
legislative process. He lamented that Gov. John Bel Edwards, who during his
campaign had expressed support for such a change in philosophy, did not seem
motivated to put his weight behind the bill’s passage.
Rep. Bob Hensgens,
whose civilian job is as a nursing home administrator, in remarks before making
the motion to accommodate Bacala’s request, said he wanted to expand waiver
services with new funding, but did not address Bacala’s concern to spend
taxpayer dollars more wisely in the process. Without objection, the committee
shelved the bill.
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