Columbus, Ohio —  Sixty years ago today, the Medicaid and Medicare Act was signed into law. However, Ohio’s 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’ office, and will see the consequences of this disasters vote at the polls

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’ bills in order to give tax cuts to billionaires. 

“Ohioans deserve answers from Republicans about the Medicaid cuts they voted for in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “As 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.”
 

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