Medicaid Battle Brews

Republican legislators in Ohio are bracing for a veto fight with Gov Kasich. Conservatives have called on the outspoken Kasich to set a national example, by leaving in place a state budget provision calling for freezing new enrollment under Medicaid expansion starting July 1, 2018. Kasich must decide by midnight, tonight. Allowing the freeze would mark a stunning reversal for Kasich. He’s been one of the Republican Party’s most vocal defenders of the expansion, made possible under the federal health care law reviled, and now targeted, by his party.