and sister, it s a horrible hole in the law. the people who would only qualify for the medicaid expansion are of a lower income than those who would qualify for the insure purchase of insurance subsidized. that s absolutely true. and the horror of this is that it s the adults without minor children who are the ones most vulnerable. the 40, 50-years-old working at low wages and do not have it through employment, but i must tell you that the catholic sisters in ohio have done an amazing job of their own nuns on the bus to make this day happen where governor kasich knew from a faith perspective they worked in the interfaith setting as well as directly with him lobbying for this decision. so i think he had a lot of political pressure and he also had a lot of faith pressure on him to do justice. this isn t charity. this is justice. everyone in the richest nation on earth has a right to have
kasich s intentions are laudable but that government as thy brother s keeper riff needs moral fine tuning. st. peter might recoil at a medicare program that reimburses doctors so poorly that fewer may take medicaid patients. sister simone your theological education is more complete than mine but i can t think of what i have read that would indicate that st. peter would recoil at medicaid reimbursement rates. absolutely not. the fact is that the doctors are provided for. the hospitals are provided for. what this law is doing is bringing down the overall costs and that is something our economy needs. st. peter would be pleased but not have a theological opinion about it. i think what is really key here though, also the pragmatic fact that hospitals who serve the uninsured are scheduled through the law to have their dish payments reduced. so if we do not have the poor
to vote 5-2 to accept $2.5 billion in medicaid funds to provide coverage for 275,000 ohio citizens. today a wall street journal editorial board attacked the governor in the article entitled medicaid and the apostle kasich. the editorial said now mr. kasich seems to view signing up for this part of obama care as an act of christian charity. the editorial reminded the governor that when it comes to his future, quote, republicans get a vote before st. peter does. joining me now is sister simone campbell.
of medicaid was gone from the law. but the governor then brought the issue to a little-known committee in ohio called the controlling board and got them to vote 5-2 to accept $2.5 billion in medicaid funds to provide coverage for 275,000 ohio citizens. today a wall street journal editorial board attacked the governor in the article entitled medicaid and the apostle kasich. the editorial said now mr. kasich seems to view signing up for this part of obama care as an act of christian charity. the editorial reminded the governor that when it comes to his future, quote, republicans
radicals and the wall street consensus. you have the religious conservatives who do want to do things either for the poor, as we heard, or just logical policies if you have a governor you have to answer for. this is the eighth republican governor that have opted in. and if you don t opt in you are leaving the poorest citizens without this coverage which leads to a perverse outcome. we have these subsidies for those at a middle income, to leave others out is wrong. this is a governor who wanted to run as a presidential candidate in 99 and might run again shows you there is a future in the republican party. and there is this, from the wall street journal governor