{"id":32258,"date":"2013-01-21T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/remember-when-they-used-to-talk-about-compassionate-conservatism.html"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:23:24","slug":"remember-when-they-used-to-talk-about-compassionate-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/remember-when-they-used-to-talk-about-compassionate-conservatism.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember when they used to talk about &quot;Compassionate Conservatism&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Remember when they used to talk about &quot;Compassionate Conservatism&quot;?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bobby Jindal&#39;s state government in Louisiana will end Medicaid hospice care service for terminally ill poor patients. \u00a0The intent, of course, is the Great Holy Cause of Cutting Spending &#8212; though it&#39;s likely that a number of those folks will end up going to the hospital instead, costing the state even more money.<\/p>\n<p>But, on the bright side (from Gov. Jindal&#39;s perspective, one assumes), without care, or without receiving care with family around them, maybe those terminally ill poor will\u00a0die faster, and so &quot;decrease the surplus population&quot; (and Medicaid rolls).<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112557653998844629535\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"112557653998844629535\">Wendy Cockcroft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/cdn.bimfs.com\/WWLTV\/6411be779867cd31cf78c0822718a93c9485c8b4.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/news\/health\/February-1st-Means-End-of-Hospice-Care-For-Some-Louisiana-Patients-187228501.html'>End of month will be end of hospice care for some Louisiana patients<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStarting Feb. 1 Louisiana will stop offering hospice care services to most patients on medicaid.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Jckw9Ex6fY6' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when they used to talk about &quot;Compassionate Conservatism&quot;? Bobby Jindal&#39;s state government in Louisiana will end Medicaid hospice care service for terminally ill poor patients. \u00a0The intent, of course, is the Great Holy Cause of Cutting Spending &#8212; though it&#39;s likely that a number of those folks will end up going to the hospital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/remember-when-they-used-to-talk-about-compassionate-conservatism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remember when they used to talk about &quot;Compassionate Conservatism&quot;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135131,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/miracles-jesus-trumpcare.html","url_meta":{"origin":32258,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;The Miracles of Jesus under Trumpcare&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 10:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ah, Compassionate Conservatism\u00ae at its most sacred. 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