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Home Front: Politix
Kasich: Fix Obamacare With More Spending
2017-07-20
[Hot Air] Ohio Gov. John Kasich wants Congress to "fix" Obamacare’s insurance exchanges with more federal spending, he explained in a New York Times op-ed.

"Congress should first focus on fixing the Obamacare exchanges before it takes on Medicaid," Kasich wrote, insisting that the federal government "provide adequate tax credits" to prop up the failed law.

Kasich has criticized the House’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) at every step in the legislative process, penning opinion columns and making TV appearances to demand more spending and a slower phase-out of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.

When AHCA took shape as a package of delayed health insurance reforms well short of a full Obamacare repeal, Kasich attacked it from the left. Even as it became clear that BCRA was in some respects less ambitious than AHCA, Kasich attacked it from the left, too.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  #5 Never get tired of remembering angry readhead guy in parking lot who said "People who died on 9-11 got what they deserved." Typical buckeye, Kasick voter most likely...
Posted by M. Murcek
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Our alternative was Ted Srickland.

What choice did we have? Other than moving out of state - which is what many of us do after retirement.
Posted by: GORT   2017-07-20 14:37  

#9  I thought he was campaigning to keep Trump from getting the nod. Anyway, what a tool.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-07-20 14:28  

#8  He kept campaigning to prevent Cruz from getting the nod. Worked about as well as everyone not in DC, Cali, or NY thought it would.
Posted by: Charles   2017-07-20 12:20  

#7  He was the darling of the NeverTrumpers after Bush and Rubio went by the wayside in the 2016 primary. I remember how he kept campaigning long after it was clear to everybody that he didn't have a chance. I always thought he was Jeb Lite as if Jeb wasn't milquetoast enough.

No, John. We don't want to squander even more trillions of dollars on this failed monstrosity. We are not Sweden. We don't want to be Sweden or England or Cuba. Let it die.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-07-20 11:00  

#6  Long ago as a congressman, then a talking head, Kasich posed as a conservative (balanced budgets, etc.) Then last year he demonstrated his room-temperature IQ in his presidential/vice-presidential campaign. He's now dropped the mask to reveal just another RINO libtard toad.

/MoO
Posted by: PBMcL   2017-07-20 10:28  

#5  Never get tired of remembering angry readhead guy in parking lot who said "People who died on 9-11 got what they deserved." Typical buckeye, Kasick voter most likely...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-07-20 09:10  

#4  Typical liberal and RINO response.

Throw more money after a shit program.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-07-20 09:03  

#3  Magic Money Tree (not just a symptom of the Donks)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-20 08:30  

#2  He was at the far lower end of the 17 presidential candidate losers, 17th I believe. Appears he's still holding steady at number 17. Whiny bastid. Never liked him, never cared for him either.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-20 07:27  

#1  Of course he thinks so. He expanded Medicaid in Ohio with federal Obamacare funds -- against the shrieks of the financial conservatives, as I recall, but he is so clever he ignored them -- and now he is looking at the funds drying up while the responsibility remains.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-07-20 07:22  

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