Senate overrides 6 of Gov. Kasich’s vetoes
Chief among them were provisions designed to clip the governor's power to use the quasi-legislative Ohio Controlling Board to draw down billions in federal funds, as he did in 2013 to expand Medicaid over the objections of many in his own party.
Another overridden provision requires legislative approval before optional populations may be added to the Medicaid rolls in the future.
BLADE BRIEFING:
"This is simply another attack at Medicaid expansion that would see this
"The administrative state has taken on what were traditionally or should be responsibilities of the legislature, and we are starting to take some of those back," he said.
Still in place is
For all the
The Medicaid expansion is expected to cost
The upper chamber left untouched five other veto overrides the House approved in early July, including a provision that would have forced the Kasich administration to seek federal approval to raise a fee on managed-care providers to help out counties and public transit authorities that depended on revenue from a now-defunct sales tax on such providers.
"The
"I stand by my vetoes on other health-care items and am disappointed with today's actions on them, but I am committed to working to manage changes with the least possible disruption in order to continue providing taxpayers with value and needy Ohioans with quality care," he said.
The six overrides were the first for a governor since
In addition to Medicaid expansion, the chamber also opted not to challenge the governor's veto of a provision that would have required his administration to again seek federal approval to impose premium requirements on some Medicaid recipients. Talks with the administration continue on this one.
One Republican, Sen.
Also still intact for the governor is the authority to appoint members of the
Lawmakers attempted to take that authority because
After lawmakers sent him a
The Kasich administration instead created a 5.8 percent health insurance corporation fee on all managed-care providers, a move that takes care of the state's own
Lawmakers added a provision to the budget that would have required the administration to ask the federal government to increase that fee to 7.2 percent for six years to give counties and transit authorities more time to prepare for the day of reckoning.
But the Kasich administration fears such a request is unlikely to be approved and could endanger
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