Governing: After calling the bill a "fig leaf" aimed at saving Louisiana's attorney general from embarrassment, Gov. John Bel Edwards quietly signed into a law a measure pushed by one of his political rivals that aims to eventually offer some protections to patients if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
The bill was backed by Attorney General Jeff Landry, and authorizes the state's insurance commissioner to study other state's health care models to come up with a potential replacement for the ACA's individual health exchange.
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