Protecting the Ohio Model

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Protecting the Ohio Model

 

By: John Kasich (Diary) | February 6th, 2013 at 12:35 PM

Obamacare is not the path any of us would have chosen, but it’s the path we find ourselves on so we better do everything we can to contain its impact until we can take back the White House and fix it.

 

I said no to a state exchange in Ohio for just that reason—to limit Obamacare’s impact. I said no to Obamacare’s takeover of our state’s insurance regulations and no to Obamacare’s takeover of our Medicaid eligibility system as well. None of those things were good for Ohio and saying no to them are helping limit Obamacare’s impact on my state.

 

Now I’ve proposed extending Medicaid health coverage to low-income and working poor Ohioans, in part, to limit further damage from Obamacare. Without this move Obamacare is likely to increase health insurance premiums even higher in Ohio. Worse, it takes $17 billion of Ohioans’ federal tax dollars out of our state and gives it to other states—

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Ohio Governor John Kasich's state of the state

Transcript From Hugh Hewitt Show.

 

 

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Lot's of pressure here in Texas to take the medicaid deal.

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With Medicaid Expansion, Gov. Kasich’s Credibility Collapses

 

5th Feb 2013 at 11:17 | By Jason Hart

Governor John Kasich’s proposal to expand Medicaid eligibility in Ohio after years of criticizing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as Obamacare, means a total collapse in Kasich’s credibility on Washington spending. Kasich, a Republican, was elected in 2010 due in part to his record as a fiscal hawk in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Now, nearly three years and $3.8 trillion in national debt later, the U.S. Supreme Court has empowered states to reject expanded Medicaid eligibility – but Governor Kasich is seeking the “large and unsustainable costs” willingly.

http://ohio.mediatrackers.org/2013/02/05/with-medicaid-expansion-gov-kasichs-credibility-collapses/

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Gov. Kasich’s Medicaid Arguments Mirror Strickland’s Pleas for Passenger Rail Spending

7th Feb 2013 at 12:55 | By Jason Hart

Governor John Kasich has defended his decision to expand Medicaid eligibility in Ohio with logic he rejected when killing a “high-speed rail” project barely two years ago. Governor Ted Strickland, a Democrat, emphasized the need to goose Ohio’s economy using our “fair share” of federal funds – an argument Kasich, a Republican, is now employing to justify Medicaid expansion.

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was designed to add millions of Americans to Medicaid by promising generous funding to compliant states – and by withholding all Medicaid funding from states that refused to raise the eligibility cap to 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28, 2012 ruling that current Medicaid funding could not be contingent on expanding the program, Kasich and several other Republican critics of PPACA have announced plans to expand Medicaid anyway

http://ohio.mediatrackers.org/2013/02/07/gov-kasichs-medicaid-arguments-mirror-stricklands-pleas-for-passenger-rail-spending/