Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Ohio Health Care Compact update
According to Ohio Rep. Wes Retherford, there will be a committee vote on the Health Care Compact (HCC) in Columbus tomorrow (May 6), "if the votes are there." Please take a few minutes to call the committee members and ask them to vote yes on the HCC. Here is a link to the committee members.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
So Far, Not So Great: Medicaid expansion already costing taxpayers
Ohio Gov. Kasich’s Obamacare Medicaid
expansion
has already cost taxpayers more than $3 billion
From Ohio Watchdog (h/t Kirsten Hill)
By Jason Hart | Ohio Watchdog
Americans’ tax burden is already $3 billion heavier because
of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare.
By putting more able-bodied, working-age childless adults on
Medicaid than Kasich projected, Obamacare expansion is reducing
incentives to work and threatening
traditional Medicaid recipients’ access to care faster and at
greater cost than anticipated.
After Kasich expanded Medicaid unilaterally, a state panel
approved $2.56 billion in Obamacare spending for the expansion’s first 18
months. The money was meant to last until July, but it ran out in
February.
Kasich’s Obamacare expansion cost $323 million in March — 84 percent greater
than estimates revised just six months earlier.
Using monthly figures released by the Ohio Department of
Medicaid, the Republican governor’s Obamacare expansion cost slightly more
than $3 billion from January 2014 through March 2015.
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Click here to contact your state Senator.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Ohio primary bills and Photo ID Lobby Day info
Photo credit: oxlre.org
These just in from Ohio Tea Party Patriots via Marianne:
Ohio's Turf in Play
There is a bill that just passed the
House that would push our primary date back another week. That would mean
six more states would do their primaries before us, making Ohio less relevant in
the process.
Also, Ohio is a winner take all state.
That means the candidate that received the most delegate votes, receives
all the delegate votes, rather than the ones that actually
voted for the candidate.
Assuming Governor Kasich intends to run
for President, if he received one more delegate vote than all the other
candidates, he would receive all the delegate votes from
Ohio.
Why would our
legislature want Ohio to be LESS relevant in an election cycle. Could it be
because Kasich is concerned about the lack of support he'll garner from his own
state, especially since our state budget has expanded under his leadership?
Could it be
because Kasich went against the will of the people and his legislature when
expanding Medicaid, which is now 33% higher than
projected?
Could it be
because Kasich continues to lie about Common Core and insult the parents of the
children forced to deal with it, while he sends his girls to private
school?
If
they should be changing anything, it should be the "winner takes all" rule.
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It's About the Party
Not the People
Unfortunately, this battle over
turf happens at every level, Federal, State and Local. The role of the Party is
to protect the Party and its turf, that is the only way to be successful in the
party's agenda, whatever it may be.
So how do we protect the people?
It starts at the local level. Become the Party. Ask yourself: Who is my
precinct rep in my county party?
If you don't know, find out by
calling your Central Committee Chair or your County Board of Elections. If you
don't have one, run for the office. All you need is five valid signatures on
your petition (always get more).
Your precinct rep is your voice at
the local level. Know who they are or become one.
If you need help, let CTPP know.
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Photo ID Lobby Day
Just a reminder for
this Wednesday's Photo ID Requirement Lobby Day:
WHEN: Wednesday,
April 29th:
10:00 a.m. - Attend press conference 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Meet with legislators WHERE: Ohio Statehouse Atrium (East Entrance) If you are unable to attend, please contact your state Representative and Senator and let them know that you support voter photo identification. Ask them to show support and co-sponsor the legislation. Click here to contact your representative Click here to contact your Senator
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Photo ID
Friday, April 24, 2015
Gov. Kasich and Medicaid Expansion
In the wake of the passage by Representatives in Columbus of a two-year state budget that contains funding for Medicaid
expansion, here’s part of a column from The Washington Examiner on Gov. Kasich
and health care:
John Kasich should be
punished for expanding Obamacare
By Philip Klein | April
23, 2015
Ohio
Gov. John Kasich has made clear that he's seriously considering running for the
2016 Republican presidential nomination. If he formally announces, it will be
important for conservative voters to punish him for his expansion of President
Obama's healthcare law in his state.
Kasich
is currently polling in
the low single-digits, has no clear path to the nomination, and the grassroots
aren't exactly clamoring for him to run. Yet he is being egged on by a group of
Republicans who want to see the party move in a direction that's more
comfortable with a larger role for government.
Though
on the campaign trail he'll insist that he's a warrior for limited government,
in reality not only did Kasich decide to participate in Obamacare's fiscally
destructive expansion of Medicaid, in doing so he also displayed a toxic mix of
cronyism, dishonesty and executive overreach.
A 2012 ruling by the U.S. Supreme
Court made it easier for states to reject Obamacare's costly expansion of
Medicaid — as many governors prudently chose to do.
But
in February 2013, despite
campaigning on opposition to Obamacare, Kasich crumbled under pressure from
hospital lobbyists who supported the measure, and endorsed the expansion. When
his legislature opposed him, Kasich bypassed lawmakers and imposed the
expansion through a separate panel — an example of executive overreach worthy
of Obama.
Kasich
cloaked his cynical move in the language of Christianity,
and, just like a liberal demagogue, he portrayed those with principled
objections to spending more taxpayer money on a failing program as being
heartless.
"Why
is that some people don't get it?" Kasich asked rhetorically
at an October 2013 event at the Cleveland Clinic, which lobbied the
administration heavily for the expansion so that it could access a stream of
money from federal taxpayers. "Is it because they're hard-hearted or
cold-hearted? It's probably because they don't understand the problem because
they have never walked in somebody's shoes."
Kasich's
defenses of his decision to expand Medicaid are built on a mountain of lies,
which have been doggedly chronicled by
Ohio native Jason Hart (currently with Watchdog.org) for the past two years.
One
of Kasich's recurring defenses has been that he was simply making sure that
money Ohio taxpayers sent to the federal government got returned to the state.
That argument could theoretically pass muster if it were a situation in which
money not spent by Ohio were automatically funneled to other states, as with
the economic stimulus bill. But that isn't the situation with Medicaid
expansion, the funding for which is only spent in states that agree to
participate.
It's
also worth noting that although the federal government picks up the full tab
for the expansion in its first three years, starting in 2017, states will have
to start pitching in and by 2020 will have to cover 10 percent of the costs. As
it is, Medicaid is crippling state budgets and is everywhere among the largest
state expenditures.
Kasich
has also emphatically tried to claim that the expansion of Medicaid has nothing
to do with Obamacare. This is ridiculous. The Medicaid expansion is one of the
central parts of the law, which is why the administration is fighting so
bitterly for states to adopt it. According to the latest estimate by the
Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare spends $847 billion over
the next decade on expanding Medicaid — representing roughly half of the
expenditures in the law.
Read
the rest here.
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