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CONTINUED MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR LOW-INCOME OHIOANS SUPPORTED BY OHIO POVERTY LAW CENTER.

Brenda Sherrell • Apr 03, 2017

During Ohio’s budget hearings this week, OPLC Senior Attorney Mike Smalz testified in support of the continuation of Ohio’s Medicaid expansion that was implemented in 2014. Mike described how any efforts by the State to seek new waivers to impose premiums on Ohioans below the federal poverty level, or other requirements to gain or keep access, would jeopardize health care for hundreds of thousands of low- income Ohioans. Read Mike’s full testimony here.

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