I imagine he's going to take this real hard. At least after the storm he had his health.

Obviously, we want to ensure that people who have evacuated are still having their health care needs met, and the best way to do that is for them to get on insurance in the state where they are residing or where they intend to reside.

There is a situation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette that public health is monitoring. Three students have contracted meningitis and one has died from a blood infection that has the same bacteria as meningitis. Our office is working with the university to address the situation.

Health reform has been like a car with a dead battery. I think this will provide the jumper cables. I think we could do it with a five-year plan. I think we have a situation where health insurance premiums are going up at four times the rate of wages. So the American worker is caught in a squeeze I think the lesson from Massachusetts is that if we get together and split the differences, and come up with compromise approaches, we don't have to turn the health care system upside down. We don't have to go to a socialized approach. We can do this within the context of our system.

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

They all knew it was detrimental to their health. They all knew that, yet they stayed there.