Lawmakers back 1-year delay on new pediatric health centers

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana lawmakers have agreed to block the creation of new Medicaid-financed centers aimed at helping "medically fragile" children.With an 85-0 vote Wednesday, the House gave final legislative passage to a measure placing a one-year moratorium on pediatric day health care centers, not allowing any new ones into the state-funded program until July 2017.The moratorium will begin July 1.The bill by Rep. Rogers Pope, a Denham Springs Republican, heads next to the governor's desk.Supp