Linda Marsa is a Los Angeles-based investigative journalist specializing in medicine and the environment. A Discover contributing editor, she is the author of Fevered:  Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves.

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Gov. Bobby Jindal’s refusal to take Medicaid dollars offered under Obamacare is leaving 242,000 of the state’s poorest residents without health care. The consequences could be deadly.