Posted on 04/29/2015 6:41:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Americans’ tax burden is already $3 billion heavier because of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare.
By putting more able-bodied, working-age childless adults on Medicaid than Kasich projected, Obamacare expansion is reducing incentives to work and threatening traditional Medicaid recipients’ access to care faster and at greater cost than anticipated.
After Kasich expanded Medicaid unilaterally, a state panel approved $2.56 billion in Obamacare spending for the expansion’s first 18 months. The money was meant to last until July, but it ran out in February.
Kasich’s Obamacare expansion cost $323 million in March — 84 percent greater than estimates revised just six months earlier.
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...
And Kasich wants to run for President??? He sure as heck won’t get the votes from the Republican base that he will need!
As far as I know there apparently is no shortage of ink and paper to print more money. Happy times are here again!!!!!
We are now the Socialist States of Barackistan
Economic growth in 1st quarter of 2015 = only 2/10 of 1%
King Obama’s socialist government freebies and handouts have sucked the lifeblood out of the economy.
Couple that with leftist policies and court decisions that are driving small business owners out of business and discouraging small business start-ups and the future doesn’t look any better.
Ohio Ping
After Kasich expanded Medicaid unilaterally
(without the consent of the governed - the Legislature) ,
a state panel approved $2.56 billion in Obamacare spending for the expansion’s first 18 months. The money was meant to last until July, but it ran out in February.
Kasich’s Obamacare expansion cost $323 million in March — 84 percent greater than estimates revised just six months earlier.
We knew this would be a disaster from the start. Both houses of the Ohio General Assembly turned it down, so Kasich did an end run and went through a special “controlling board” which is a slush fund for building stadiums and other big capital projects. He even queered the board by forcing out some members who might go against him, and packed it with his allies. Both Houses are Republican. They told him NO. We told him NO. He did it anyway: (a) to ingratiate himself with Obama and (b) because he has been running for Jeb’s running mate. Sickening!
He's become a tool for construction and big medicine interests in OH. He's done this at the expense of particularly the smaller cities and towns that don't have the clout to bring in state financing. Towns are starving, but unnecessary construction projects flourish. The expansion of Medicare was totally against the vote of state pols, and at the behest of his sponsors, the big hospitals that suck in the revenue from expanded Medicare.
He's an excellent campaigner. The dems ran a seriously flawed candidate against him this time, and Kasich exploited those weaknesses beautifully. His "massive win" might be exploited by the elite to try to boost him into the nomination.
I agree, he's bad news. But watch out.
Kasich has had a taste of power within his state, and realizes that to keep the peace and continue to be re-elected, he’s got to throw a little money at the Amish in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. That’s what he needs to do to keep his poll numbers up.
Kasich is an odd duck. He’s great at balancing budgets, but he’s never going to build a national constituency. He’s my governor and far better than what we’ve had in the past, but you can’t understand him even unless you study what he’s said for an hour or two. That will never happen with low info America, and with conservatives, they won’t resonate with his message.
Yup. The Ohio Legislature checked him earlier. But now John Kissass seems to be emulating Odumbo by unilaterally raking Ohio over the coals.
More looting.
How’s that compassionate conservatism working out for you?
so where is the money coming from?
And so it begins! Yet we are supposed to consider Kasich as a serious presidential nominee...
As far as I am concerned, any one of the governors that took this action are nothing but progressives! That includes Kasich, Snyder, Scott, etc. They can all KMA!
“He’s great at balancing budgets,”
As was so clearly demonstrated with his Obamacare Expansion and has been documented in this very article!
It’s what he does. At the end of the FY, he’ll have it balanced.
Well at least until the Feds pull their “temporary” funding. But hey, he’ll probably be out of office by then.....
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