Posted on 06/03/2021 3:09:35 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
Louisiana may soon offer incentives to residents who are willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to boost the state’s dismal vaccination rate.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said his administration is discussing sweetening the pot for people who take the vaccine, but he wouldn’t go into details about what type of incentive might be in the works.
“I would expect that pretty soon you’re going to hear that we are going to offer some things that make people — more people — take advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated, but we haven’t made a decision as to what that’s going to look like or when,” Edwards said at news conference Thursday.
A few other states have already announced plans to offer vaccinated people a chance at a cash prize or gift card. Ohio, New York and Maryland governors have launched special lottery games for the vaccinated. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is giving residents a $100 U.S. Treasury Bond or gift card in exchange for vaccinations.
Some of the governors have run into challenges setting up their incentive programs, which is why Edwards is taking his time examining his choices.
“I don’t want to get ahead of myself because there have been some other states that have done that,” he said.
Louisiana currently has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. About 30 percent of state residents have completed their vaccine series, according to the Louisiana Department of Health, compared to over 37 percent of people nationwide.
The state’s demand for the vaccine has become alarmingly sluggish. Louisiana’s chief medical officer, Joe Kanter, said Louisiana will not avail itself of all of the vaccine the federal government is willing to give it next week because it doesn’t believe it would use all the doses offered.
It’s not clear whether Edwards, as governor, would have to coordinate with state lawmakers in order to launch a vaccine incentive program. Legislators typically have some oversight over state spending issues, but the governor might have federal COVID-19 funding he’s able to distribute without their permission.
Louisiana is expected to receive a lot more money than expected over this budget cycle and the next one. State revenue forecasts jumped by $677 million between now and June 1, 2022, in large part because of direct federal aid for COVID-19 and enhanced unemployment benefits also supplied by the federal government.
Still, the two lawmakers with the most control over the budget were somewhat cold to the idea of using public money to supply cash incentives for vaccinations.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, said he would want the option of private funding for vaccine incentives to be exhausted before public funding was considered. Zeringue said he is in favor of encouraging “as many people as possible” to get vaccinated, but he wasn’t sure offering financial prizes would be effective in boosting the state’s rate.
“I would hope most people on their own would get the vaccine, if they wanted to get it,” Zeringue said.
Senate Finance Chairman Bodi White, R-Baton Rouge, also said he wants more people to get vaccinated, but no one had approached him yet about funding a vaccine incentive program. He was skeptical offering cash prizes would be an effective method of boosting the state’s vaccine rate.
“I don’t know that we’re there yet,” he said.
So the ‘Rat gov is trying to bribe African Americans to get a CoupFlu shot?
Perfect CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and no “legal system” can touch the criminals? Mass DEPOPULATION.
“And he took Him to a exceedingly high mountain and showed Him all the kingdom’s of the world in a moment of time”
Volunteer, Bribe, Force. We are at Stage 2.
wanna bet these state “financial incentives” are coming from the pharmaceutical companies/vaccine manufactureres?
Paying doctors financial bonuses to do this kind of stuff for pharmaceutical companies was made illegal several decades ago
“And he caused all rich and poor...to take the Mark.”
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Perfect CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and no “legal system” can touch the criminals? Mass DEPOPULATION.
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Yes. You are exactly right. I wanted to send the scientific written response of the vicious results of a large percentage of our population to the vaccines...especially how young people are also included in the victims of the blood clots created by the vaccines. But I lost the article when I tried to update this Microsoft Windows 10 program as MS said I had to and failed completely...now my computer and its search ability is essentially useless as I refuse to use “Edge” for everyting I do.
Edge eh?
Just posted about it at Q thread...
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
“Evolutionary Psychologist”
ROFL
MAO
Bill Gate$ is on the edge...
: )
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3963110/posts
Volunteer, Bribe, Force. We are at Stage 2.
Civilization
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships—thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement.
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Ayn Rand
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