Ohio Ping
Gov. John Kasich – Ohio’s Own Obama?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3111567/posts
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Ohio’s legislature – lobbied by grassroots groups the press acknowledges only to sneer at – stripped Medicaid expansion from the state budget and even passed language explicitly forbidding it. Kasich responded by line-item vetoing the Medicaid expansion ban, and then unilaterally expanding Medicaid when several more months of emotional blackmail didn’t work.
The legislature wouldn’t grow government the way Kasich wanted, so Kasich took a page from Obama’s playbook and pretended the huge policy decision was an executive matter.
Good thing this is coming out. Otherwise I’d have to use my ‘toldyaso’.
I can not fault Kasich for doing the Medicaid expansion: we Ohio residents send a lot of tax dollars to Washington, and without Ohio expanding Medicaid, we would not get THOSE dollars back, they would be given instead to other states who DID follow the Federal mandate to expand. You can thank the formerly Dim - controlled Congress for THAT!
I also think there is a proviso in the current Ohio Medicaid expansion that ends it if the Feds fail to pony up the lion's share as promised...
That seems like a prudent, responsible decision to ME?
Also can't fault Kasich for agreeing with Reagan's comment about the truly needy...there are such people, and I'd rather let Kasich and our state agencies decide who they are here in Ohio than let the federal HHS do it, or send our money to California or someplace...
BTW, thanks for the ping! ; )