Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Hundreds of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Medicaid expansion advocates rallied in front of the Ohio Statehouse on April 11, 2013, calling for the General Assembly to expand the entitlement program at an annual cost of billions in federal spending and hundreds of millions in state… Continue reading Ohio Socialized Medicine Lobby Rallies Like It’s 2009
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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
Medicaid Expansion Would “Save” Money by Increasing State, Federal Spending
Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Governor John Kasich and other supporters of expanding Medicaid in Ohio make a strange economic case for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Medicaid expansion, portraying millions in new state spending as responsible because it would be offset by billions in new federal spending. The… Continue reading Medicaid Expansion Would “Save” Money by Increasing State, Federal Spending
More Than a Quarter of Ohio Doctors Reject New Medicaid Patients
Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Only 72 percent of Ohio’s office-based physicians accepted new Medicaid patients in 2011, a Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO) report released this month noted. Many doctors reject Medicaid because the entitlement program limits costs by underpaying care providers. The HPIO report also explained that President Obama’s Patient Protection… Continue reading More Than a Quarter of Ohio Doctors Reject New Medicaid Patients
Universal Health Care Action Network Helps Gov. Kasich Pressure Ohio House
Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. The contents of a March 15 Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio (UHCAN Ohio) web training for progressive activists interested in lobbying for Medicaid expansion bore a striking resemblance to talking points from Governor John Kasich and his administration. Kasich, a Republican, has decided to pursue billions in… Continue reading Universal Health Care Action Network Helps Gov. Kasich Pressure Ohio House
Can Ohio Expand Medicaid Temporarily?
Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. Governor John Kasich has insisted Ohio can adopt the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Medicaid expansion temporarily and back out in the future by including a “circuit breaker” provision that would revoke new Medicaid eligibility if Washington changes the rules. Ohio’s newspapers, which enthusiastically support… Continue reading Can Ohio Expand Medicaid Temporarily?
Kasich Medicaid Expansion Rally Gets a Boost from Columbus Dispatch
Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site. The Columbus Dispatch continued its push for Medicaid expansion with a staggeringly incomplete March 15 story about an Ohio Coalition for Healthy Communities rally addressed by Governor John Kasich. Members of the Ohio Coalition for Healthy Communities include AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer, but Dispatch reporter Alan Johnson described the group as… Continue reading Kasich Medicaid Expansion Rally Gets a Boost from Columbus Dispatch
Newspapers Ignore Facts Central to Medicaid Expansion Fight
Ohio’s major newspapers have failed to recognize that Governor John Kasich’s case for Medicaid expansion rests on several misleading or outright false claims, reporting Kasich administration statements without asking simple followup questions. Meanwhile, opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Medicaid expansion are marginalized when acknowledged at all. On March 13, the… Continue reading Newspapers Ignore Facts Central to Medicaid Expansion Fight
Ohio Hospitals Would Net Millions Without Charity Care Funding
Contrary to Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) claims that the Ohio General Assembly must expand Medicaid to fund care for the poor, most of the hospital lobby’s members would have recorded positive net income in 2011 even with no charity care offsets. President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a central component of which… Continue reading Ohio Hospitals Would Net Millions Without Charity Care Funding
Ohio Hospital Association Cannot Justify Medicaid Expansion
According to the Ohio Hospital Association, the state legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid would mean “endangering access to vital health care for their constituents.” President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) phases out subsidies for charity care, but a review of IRS filings reveals that most of Ohio’s largest nonprofit hospitals would have netted millions in… Continue reading Ohio Hospital Association Cannot Justify Medicaid Expansion