Ohio spends more of its budget on Medicaid than any other state: Report by J.D. Davidson, The Center Square | March 16, 2021 08:00 PM Print this article
Ohio spends more taxpayer dollars on Medicaid as a percent of its state budget than any other state in the country, according to a WalletHub report released Monday.
The report from the personal finance website ranked states based on Medicaid spending, quality and eligibility and enrollment. Ohio landed 17th on the list, ranking 18th in the country in total Medicaid spending.
At the same time, according to the WalletHub report, President Joe Biden s administration is looking into expanding Medicaid.
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Sen. Johnson: Non-N95 masks, social distancing are “not scientific”
By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com
Ohio Sen. Terry Johnson delivered co-sponsor testimony on March 3 promoting Senate Bill 22 to the Ohio House State and Local Government Committee. Photo courtesy of the Ohio Channel.
COLUMBUS As states across the country take action to do away with mask mandates and other coronavirus-related public health orders, Scioto County’s Sen. Terry Johnson, R-McDermott, is among a bevy of Ohio Republican Party legislators attempting to curb the authority of Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Health.
Like so many things throughout the past year, Johnson argues that the state’s response to the pandemic is “unprecedented” even when compared to the Spanish Flu. In his view, the handling of the response has been much more centralized on the executive branch and goes against the common practice of medicine.
Florida lawmakers appear ready to junk the state’s unemployment benefits system, CONNECT, over its failures to process payments at the height of the pandemic. But GOP leaders have rebuffed Democratic proposals to address other issues with the system that struggled to pay out paltry benefits even before the coronavirus hit. That could be changing, at least in the Senate.