A New Report Shows That Ohio’s 2013 Medicaid Expansion Helped Nearly 300,000 People Get Work
“In 2013, Ohio Governor John Kasich bucked his fellow Republicans by executing a successful campaign to expand Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act. The expansion met quite a bit of hostility within the GOP; one group of Republican Ohio state representatives tried suing to overturn the expansion, though their effort ultimately failed. Kasich, ever the faithful Christian, apparently told a fellow legislator, ‘When you die and get to the meeting with Saint Peter, he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor.’”