Medicaid advocates file petitions to start ballot process
Medicaid expansion advocates are taking a step toward “Plan B” today by filing the first round of petitions needed to put Medicaid on the ballot in Ohio in 2014. A group of health care providers, labor...
View ArticleMedicaid expansion clears first hurdle for 2014 ballot
Medicaid expansion proponents are free to start collecting signatures around Ohio that could eventually help them put the issue on the 2014 ballot. Attorney General Mike DeWine today certified their...
View ArticlePOLL: Should Kasich use Controlling Board to expand Medicaid?
The Enquirer’s state capital reporter, Chrissie Thompson, reports that Gov. John Kasich may try to expand Medicaid in Ohio by doing an end-run around the GOP-controlled General Assembly, which has so...
View ArticleWhat you’re telling Gov. Kasich about expanding Medicaid without a...
Enquirer statehouse reporter Chrissie Thompson reported Wednesday that Gov. John Kasich’s most likely avenue for expanding Medicaid in Ohio has emerged as an end-around of the Republican caucus....
View ArticleState Senate GOP leader expects Medicaid expansion
Senate President Keith Faber, R-Celina, on Tuesday put words to expectations in Columbus: Gov. John Kasich is going to get the votes he needs on Monday to fund Medicaid expansion through the...
View ArticleLocal GOP Reps. protest Kasich’s Medicaid plan
All 11 Southwest Ohio Republicans have signed a letter protesting Gov. John Kasich’s plan to expand Medicaid via the state’s seven-member Controlling Board. The letter, published overnight in the House...
View ArticleEnquirer readers to Gov. Kasich: Thank you for expanding Medicaid
UPDATED 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23. Cincinnati.com viewers using the Enquirer’s ‘talk to your government’ tool are overwhelmingly praising Gov. John Kasich for expanding Medicaid in Ohio Monday. As...
View ArticleState: Board has authority to expand Medicaid
Ohio’s seven-member Controlling Board and its Medicaid Department didn’t violate the state’s laws or its constitution when they acted to accept federal money to expand Medicaid, Attorney General Mike...
View ArticleOhio Medicaid fight: ‘It’s over with’
With the Ohio Supreme Court’s rejection last week of a legal challenge to Medicaid expansion funding, foes of broadening access to the health-care program for low-income people say their fight’s over –...
View ArticleClermont County tea partier won’t take on Kasich after all
Ted Stevenot, the Union Township tea party leader who had planned to run enter the GOP gubernatorial primary, has decided not to run after all. The decision comes three days after he gave notice about...
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