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This letter, published yesterday in the Wheeling News-Register, is by our fellow patriot Bob Connors with the We the People Ohio
Valley :
Kasich Mishandled
Medicaid
December
16, 2014
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
Mike
Myer's recent opinion "Political Litmus Tests Unwise" makes sense
except where conscience and freedom meet. Should we not hold politicians
accountable for issues like health care choice or kid's education?
Describing
Gov. Kasich's unilateral implementation of Medicaid expansion as a single issue
may be naive, Ohioans voted for, and overwhelmingly passed, a health care
amendment to protect themselves from the unpopular Obamacare in its entirety
and Kasich disrespected that vote. Kasich then defied Ohio state
representatives who said "no" to Medicaid expansion as they cut it
from the budget. Kasich also ignored the throng of phone calls and email
begging him not to support Obamacare via Medicaid expansion.
Is it
crazy to question Kasich's contempt for voters and his debt legacy which will
saddle Ohioans with huge permanent budget busting surges in spending for
decades? No. It is fiscally irresponsible to commit billions of future tax
dollars to hospital and health insurance executives as with Medicaid expansion.
Ditto for committing big stealthy spending growth for Common Core Standards, a
national one size fits all education disaster.
Many
people oppose putting more of Ohio's poor into this broken Medicaid program
because several studies show Medicaid patients have worse health outcomes than
people without insurance. Kasich could have reformed Medicaid when he was first
elected, thereby providing people with better outcomes at less cost, but he did
not. Kasich uses the Bible to justify his actions but the Bible speaks of
people helping people, not about politicians getting into heaven by creating
generational debt.
Bob
Connors
Bridgeport
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