Central City News

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News – Baton Rouge   The proposed $2.5 billion sale of non-profit Blue Cross/Blue Shield to Elevance, an out-of-state, for-profit insurance giant, has been delayed by opposition from policyholders and legislators. The proposed transaction had smooth sailing until a letter announcing the sale was received by policyholders on August […]

Four members of the Board of Directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana have resigned their positions to serve as initial Board members for a new foundation called Accelerate Louisiana Initiative.  The new foundation would receive $2.5 billion from the sale of Blue Cross to insurance company Elevance and $770 million from the reserves of […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News – Baton Rouge   Insurance executive Derek Babcock testified last week before the Joint Legislative Committee on Insurance on the proposed sale of Blue Cross to a for-profit corporation.  Babcock did not state a position on the sale but said policyholders should be asking questions like these: •Why is […]

An investigative report in the Central City News in July revealed that thousands of patient files and other personally identifiable medical records were abandoned at Delta Women’s Clinic on Colonial Drive in Baton Rouge. Now as a result of the reports, the Louisiana Attorney General’s office has begun a criminal investigation and seized documents and […]

Hause Actuarial Solutions provided the following analysis of the proposed sale of Blue Cross to Elevance and the transfer of Blue Cross funds to a new foundation. Executive Summary •The $2.5 billion valuation of the company as derived in the Cain Brothers opinion appears to be within a reasonable range of values. •The proposed plan […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 legalized abortion-on-demand in Louisiana, the biggest abortion provider in this state has been Leroy T. Brinkley. Brinkley, who is not a physician, operated out of six different locations in Baton Rouge and three in New Orleans over the past 40 years.  Perhaps the […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor When Richard Mahoney called and asked if the Central City News would like to be the first news outlet to look inside Delta Women’s Clinic at 756 Colonial Drive in Baton Rouge, I said yes, of course. Some of his supporters in the pro-life movement had just acquired the building from […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Louisiana law requires that every health care provider who has reason to believe a child has been subjected to physical or sexual abuse must report that fact to the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. Health care providers are “mandatory reporters” under the law. When a child becomes pregnant, there […]

A former physician, Kermit Gosnell received national attention during his trial in Pennsylvania for the murder of three babies after their birth and the death of a woman during an abortion procedure.   Gosnell was also convicted of 21 felony counts of illegal late-term abortions, and 211 counts of violating Pennsylvania’s 24-hour informed consent law.  […]

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