Posted on 01/26/2017 7:33:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Because repealing Obamacare wasn’t complicated enough already, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has asked Congress to keep paying for the law’s expansion of Medicaid to working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities.
Since Kasich is a Republican, his advocacy for the biggest part of Obamacare — roughly three-fourths of all Obamacare enrollees are on Medicaid, not “marketplace” plans — is a big hit with the legacy press. And like all policies the media love, Kasich’s Obamacare expansion is covered much the same way your parents would report on your first science project.
Kasich says Obamacare expansion is a success, and that’s good enough for the reporters looking forward to the official launch of his next presidential campaign.
I’ve been researching this issue for the past four years, so I put together an infographic you might want your senators and representatives to keep in mind when Obamacare supporters point to Kasich as proof Medicaid expansion is anything but a massive welfare trap and a budget-busting handout to hospital lobbyists.
You can download the following as a PNG image or a PDF document. If you’ve got any questions about where my numbers came from, ping me on Twitter — I’m @jasonahart.
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Even if Kasich were right, which he isn’t, he burned all his bridges.
He’ll get no support.
Able bodied people should receive an incentive to work.
My understanding is the states get Fed money for the first three years, then, they’re on their own.
Can Ohio handle this? Kasich won’t care much as he’ll probably be gone by then.
Kasick has delusions of grandeur. Go eat some more pancakes with your butt buddies.
Kasich having fun spending other people’s money, wanting to spend more, chop-chopping hs hands here and there, looking like a pol.
And he’s a republican!
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What's OH hiding...?
Kaysuck was told not to expand Medicaid, that Ohio would be stuck with the bill in the out years after the Federal dollars ended.
He knew he was signing Ohioans up for a YUGE bill.
Tell Johnny to stuff it.
In the end, Obamacare was just a huge Medicaid expansion.
They loosened the requirements, poured in lots of printed Federal Reserve money and debt, and sent out their army of social-workers salespeople to sign up warm bodies.
The other side of it was a completely asinine and screwed-up, system of state and Federal “marketplaces” where Government allowed private insurance companies to screw the middle class.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has asked Congress to keep paying for the law’s expansion of Medicaid to working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities.
NO, Personally I believe that ALL WELFARE should be paid for exclusively by Public Employees. It is generally the Official Government Policies that create the Need for Welfare in the first place, not always but most of the time.
So what we need to do is shift the cost from the TAXPAYERS to the TAX TAKERS, PUBLIC EMPLOYEES!!!
>Able bodied people should receive an incentive to work.
That’s an easy one: Terminate the illegal (economic) inservitude\takings (aka welfare). The able-bodied find said incentive when they begin to realize no work = charity\no roof\clothes\food\etc.
This turd in OH will just not go away...
I’m always amused when journalists pretend that Kasich is a republican, or when Kasich pretends the same thing.
- Kasich supported and implemented Obamacare’s Medicare expansion http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kasich-bible-medicaid_us_56140a54e4b022a4ce5fb1e3
- Kasich enthusiastically supports Amnesty for illegals. http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Kasich.htm
- Kasich voted for the Assault Weapons Ban. https://grabien.com/file.php?id=53463 and as of last year did not regret that vote
- Kasich dismissively said Christian bakers should “bake the cupcake” and participate in a gay parody of the sacrament of marriage, even if it violates their religious beliefs. https://www.frcaction.org/updatearticle/20160225/kasich-pushes
- Kasich supported Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kasich-id-consider-nominating-merrick-garland-supreme-court-election-2016/
I’m sure there must be issues on which John Kasich agrees with decent Americans, but he never seems to mention any of them.
Good graphic very helpful thanks.
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