Two
of Ohio’s largest newspapers Sunday hammered opponents of Gov. John Kasich’s
Obamacare Medicaid expansion. The Columbus Dispatch and Toledo Blade, which
both endorsed Medicaid expansion in early 2013, continued their insistence the
expansion costs Ohioans nothing because the program’s benefits are 100 percent
federally funded until 2017.
Neither
editorial board expressed concern about the $18 trillion national debt or the likelihood
of Republicans in Congress cutting funding for the Obamacare expansion.
The
Dispatch editors made an unsubtle attempt Sunday
to bully Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger into bending fellow Republicans
in the Ohio General Assembly to Kasich’s will.
Rosenberger
has a chance to prove he wants what is best for Ohio “by pledging to work with
Gov. John Kasich to continue the federally funded expansion of Medicaid,” the
Dispatch editors wrote. Dispatch publisher John Wolfe, who sits on the paper’s
editorial board, has donated tens of thousands of
dollars to Kasich’s campaigns. Read More…..
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