Ohio governor proved wrong about Obamacare money

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Watchdog.org:

What if Ohio’s newspapers helped Gov. John Kasich crush criticism of Medicaid expansion by misleading the state about billions in Obamacare spending?

 

NOT QUITE: Ohio Gov. John Kasich says Ohio tax dollars pay for Obamacare

That is exactly what’s been happening for the past two years, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has confirmed. Contrary to Kasich’s assurances, rejecting the Obamacare expansion would not send Ohio tax dollars to other states.

CRS, a department of the Library of Congress providing policy guidance to members of Congress, answered questions about Obamacare — also referred to as the Affordable Care Act — in a Jan. 30 memo published by the free-market Foundation for Government Accountability.

“If a state doesn’t implement the ACA Medicaid expansion, the federal funds that would have been used for that state’s expansion are not being sent to another state,” CRS explained. “There is not a set amount of federal funding for Medicaid.”