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Medicaid Dir. On Work Requirements, Possible Cuts

The largest single item in the state budget is Medicaid, with nearly half of state spending going toward it. More than 3 million Ohioans receive Medicaid to cover health care – 39% of those Ohioans are kids under 18. As of this week, 769,869 Ohioans are getting Medicaid benefits through expansion of the program in 2013 under Republican former Gov. John Kasich following the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Federal funding for that population is uncertain and the proposed budget has trigger language that could end state funding for it. And the DeWine administration has gone to the Trump administration a second time to ask for permission to implement an 80-hour a month work requirement for people who are under 55, aren’t enrolled in school or a training program, who aren’t working a recovery program or don’t have a serious physical or mental illness. I talked about all of that and more with Ohio’s Medicaid director Maureen Corcoran.