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Jindal, La. congressional delegation talk Medicaid

Gov. Bobby Jindal met with members of Louisiana's congressional delegation to discuss ways to fix the state's impending Medicaid funding problems.

Gov. Bobby Jindal met with members of Louisiana's congressional delegation to discuss ways to fix the state's impending Medicaid funding problems.

The Republican governor met on Friday with Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and four of the state's GOP congressmen: Rodney Alexander of Quitman; Joseph Cao of New Orleans; John Fleming of Minden and Steve Scalise of Metairie.

The group discussed ways Congress could prevent a decrease of $700 million per year in the federal money that goes toward state costs of Medicaid. The delegation members pledged to work to stop the funding cuts.

Medicaid costs are shared between states and the federal government, tied to the state's per-capita income. The federal government's share of Louisiana's Medicaid costs is expected to shrink from 80 percent to 63 percent in 2011 because the state's post-hurricane economic surge temporarily boosted per-capita income.