Buckeye Institute Issues Statement on Ohio’s Medicaid Waiver Application

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 17 -- The Buckeye Institute issued the following statement on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' determination that Ohio's 1332 Medicaid waiver application was incomplete:

"It is disappointing that the federal government would deem Ohio's 1332 Medicaid waiver application incomplete. The Ohio application does not impact health coverage according to actuarial evidence.

"While Health and Human Services (HHS) told states it would work with them to use innovation waivers to ease the burden of the Affordable Care Act, in practice HHS has been inflexible.

"It's refusal to rescind Obama-era guidance regarding 1332's reinforces that message of inflexibility."