Health & Fitness
Kasich vetoes ban on Medicaid expansion, keeps school vouchers, abortion language in budget
By Maggie Thurber | For Ohio Watchdog
Gov. John Kasich vetoed 22 items in the $62-billion two-year Ohio budget, including a prohibition against expanding Medicaid and the imposition of a new Internet sales tax, but kept intact an expansion of school vouchers and controversial abortion language.
H.B. 59 was signed Sunday evening in a special ceremony at the statehouse in Columbus.
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“We’re proud of our tax cuts, because we think it is another installment in Ohio’s comeback. It’s going to continue to give us great momentum,” the governor said. “And we’re all so proud of the fact that we have the largest increase in K-12 funding in a decade.”
The Medicaid language prohibited the state from covering individuals under 65 years, not pregnant, not entitled or enrolled in Medicare Parts A or B and whose income does not exceed 133 percent of the poverty line. It also would forego federal funding to cover 100 percent of this group in 2014 and 2015.