Category Archives: Medicaid Expansion

A June 11th report from Gongwer News Service outlines the latest enrollment figures from the Department of Medicaid for Kasich’s implementation of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. 243,230 Ohioans enrolled in Medicaid as of the end of May, just five months from the start date of the program.  36,000 applications remain pending approval. During the Medicaid expansion debate, the Kasich administration told Ohioans that 366,000 people would enroll in Medicaid expansion by end of June 2015.  So […]

The OLC has previously reported on the “Oregon Experiment,” which began in 2008 with a group of uninsured, low-income adults who were given the opportunity to participate in a lottery to apply for Medicaid benefits.  Researchers followed the group that won the lottery as well as the group who remained uninsured to determine what benefits, if any, were had by placing more individuals on Medicaid. In May 2013, a study on the Oregon Experiment was published in […]

Since 2009, we have heard politicians tell us how Obamacare would improve access to health care and lower premiums.  Very few, if any, of these individuals were experts in the medical field.  They were not doctors or hospital administrators.  They were elected and appointed officials, many lawyers, and many whose entire professional experience has been concentrated in government.  That Americans felt it was a good idea to turn the transformation of our health care system […]