"It is affordable now," said Gov.
"Now I want to be clear," he said. "If the federal government plays games and tries to put us in a perilous fiscal position, we will have to change this position on Medicaid expansion. There's no way that we can put our state deep in the hole and wreck economic development and more prosperity."
In 2013,
At the time the federal government was picking up the entire tab. Fiscal year 2021 will mark the first year that the state's share of the tab will reach 10 percent.
State Medicaid Director
It has also helped to reduce the number of emergency room visits, slash the number of people without coverage in the state, help many quit smoking, and treat the drug addicted and mentally ill, she said..
Just under 700,000 Ohioans are covered by the program, which serves those earning as much as 38 percent above the federal poverty level, about
"Every single county, every single community, every single neighborhood is impacted,"
In
"I wouldn't be able to afford
The Republican-controlled
The program extends Medicaid -- the federal-state health coverage of last resort for the poor, disabled, and infirm -- to include largely working, lower-income adults. Demand for the program far exceeded initial estimates.
But
In 2021, the state's estimated match of
"What we do know from the 2016 assessment, which also used self-reported surveys, is that the
"This fact made the 2016 report useless in providing an unbiased quantitative assessment of the impact of Medicaid expansion,"
Preservation of the expansion is considered imperative for
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