Tag: John Kasich

Senate President Warns Kasich May Bankrupt Ohio’s Medicaid Program

Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Ohio Senate President Keith Faber (R-Celina) yesterday reiterated his concern that Governor John Kasich may bankrupt the state’s Medicaid program if the Ohio Controlling Board rejects Kasich’s request to spend Obamacare funding. “If we don’t move the [Obamacare] money from the federal funds account and authorize it to… Continue reading Senate President Warns Kasich May Bankrupt Ohio’s Medicaid Program

Gov. Kasich Sticks To False, Pseudo-Christian Obamacare Rhetoric

Ohio Governor John Kasich keeps repeating his false claim that expanding Medicaid would “get our money back,” his insistence that God wants more entitlement spending, and his allusions to circumventing standard legislative procedure to implement a key piece of Obamacare. In a September 16 question and answer session with the press filmed by Youngstown Vindicator reporter Marc Kovac, the Republican governor… Continue reading Gov. Kasich Sticks To False, Pseudo-Christian Obamacare Rhetoric

Gov. Kasich Pretends Obamacare is Not Obamacare

Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Governor John Kasich is now insisting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion “is not about Obamacare,” in an attempt to message his fight for new deficit spending around conservative opposition and months of bad news about President Obama’s unpopular 2010 health law. Expanding Medicaid — an ineffective entitlement program that already consumes nearly… Continue reading Gov. Kasich Pretends Obamacare is Not Obamacare

Kasich Tugs Heartstrings, Spins Falsehoods at Medicaid Expansion Rally

Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Governor John Kasich stuck to his practiced Medicaid expansion pitch – a mix of progressive pseudo-Christianity and outright falsehoods about the program’s funding – during a speech at a July 9 Statehouse rally for socialized medicine. As his administration has done for months, the Republican governor conflated Medicaid coverage with “health… Continue reading Kasich Tugs Heartstrings, Spins Falsehoods at Medicaid Expansion Rally

John Kasich: God Wants Ohio to Expand Medicaid

Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Governor John Kasich, a Republican, repeated his insistence that God wants Ohio to expand Medicaid when reporters brought up the topic on June 18. Kasich suggested anyone who opposes Medicaid expansion will have to answer for their opposition when they die. Gov. Kasich said he recently told… Continue reading John Kasich: God Wants Ohio to Expand Medicaid

8 Awful Medicaid Expansion Arguments From Gov. Kasich

Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. President Obama’s foundering 2010 health law has found an unlikely champion in Governor John Kasich, a Republican who has abandoned all pretense of fiscal conservatism in pursuit of billions in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Medicaid expansion funding. Here are eight of the most illogical –… Continue reading 8 Awful Medicaid Expansion Arguments From Gov. Kasich

John Kasich’s Billion-Dollar Medicaid Expansion Bluff

Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Governor John Kasich has wagered he can pressure the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly into expanding Medicaid by telling legislators they cannot stop billions in federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) spending. With the complicity of Ohio’s media, he may be right. The governor, a Republican… Continue reading John Kasich’s Billion-Dollar Medicaid Expansion Bluff

John Kasich, Compassionate Conservative?

Ohio Governor John Kasich has conflated government spending with personal charity in his arguments for Medicaid expansion, adopting one of the central pillars of progressive philosophy. Kasich’s portrayal of deeper debt and bigger government as the Christian path strongly resembles President George W. Bush’s talk of “compassionate conservatism,” which assented to progressive arguments that conservatism… Continue reading John Kasich, Compassionate Conservative?

Gov. Kasich Repeats Medicaid Expansion Lies in State of the State Address

Governor John Kasich forcefully repeated multiple falsehoods about expanding Medicaid eligibility in Ohio during his 2013 State of the State address on February 19. As he and his administration have done for weeks, Kasich falsely insisted that Ohio’s promised federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) funding for expanding Medicaid will be sent to other… Continue reading Gov. Kasich Repeats Medicaid Expansion Lies in State of the State Address