Sixty years ago last week, the Medicaid and Medicare Act was signed into law. However, Ohio\u2019s entire Republican congressional delegation recently voted for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Every Ohio Republican owns the consequences of this vote- from rural hospitals closing to families paying a premium at the doctors\u2019 office, and will see the consequences of this disasters vote at the polls<\/p>\n
Senator Husted, Senator Moreno, and all Republican members of Congress voted for a bill that will take healthcare away from hundreds of thousands of Ohioans, close rural hospitals, and raise doctors\u2019 bills in order to give tax cuts to billionaires.<\/p>\n
\u201cOhioans deserve answers from Republicans about the Medicaid cuts they voted for in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires,\u201d said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. \u201cAs we head into an election year where voters are already fed up with Republicans who leave their constituents behind in favor of billionaire donors, Democrats will continue holding Republicans accountable for their votes to make our state less healthy and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sixty years ago last week, the Medicaid and Medicare Act was signed into law. However, Ohio\u2019s entire Republican congressional delegation recently voted for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Every Ohio Republican owns the consequences of this vote- from rural hospitals closing to families paying a premium at the doctors\u2019 office, and will see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[305],"class_list":["post-16808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16809,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}