Vote expands Medicaid

Ohio panel votes to expand Medicaid

If the headlined action holds up Ohio could get back a good portion of the money that we send to Washington. In my opinion that's better than for it to go to other, caring, states that have accepted expanded medicaid..

Our own Cliff Rosenberg was an original member of the seven-member Controlling Board, which approved by a 5-2 bipartisan vote, a request to accept $2.56 billion in federal money for the expansion through June 2015. However, in a move to keep his chances alive to win the House Speakership he was replaced. “House Speaker William Batchelder of Medina, subbed in Rep. Ross McGregor, R-Springfield, and Rep. Jeff McClain, R-Upper Sandusky, for two anti-expansion House Republicans said to be vying for the speaker post.”

The board is composed of two majority party and one minority party members from each legislative chamber and an appointee of the governor’s Office of Budget and Management.

Paul Hunter

Vote expands Medicaid; opponents vow to sue

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/springfield-republican-to-be-deciding-vote-on-medi/nbTFL/

Republican lawmakers rejected Kasich’s proposal to expand Medicaid in the state budget earlier this year. They also inserted language into the budget explicitly prohibiting expansion.

Kasich used his line item veto power to strike that language, leaving language intact that allows the state to expand to any group not prohibited by law.