BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gov. Bobby Jindal is in Texas for a Republican Governors Association conference.
Jindal, who's seen by many to be a rising star in the GOP, participated Wednesday in a panel discussion in which he voiced concerns about health care reform efforts in Washington, D.C.
Jindal said some believe that passage of a reform bill this year would bode well for Republicans in the 2010 mid-term elections because plans currently discussed in the Democratic-controlled Congress are so unpopular with the American public. But he said he worries about the long-term damage a pushed-through bill could cause in terms of higher deficits and a potentially worsened quality of care.
Jindal is in the midst of his first term and has repeatedly sought to brush aside speculation that he might run for president in 2012.
He's expected to return to Baton Rouge on Friday.
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