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Ohio bill would extend Medicaid, add cost sharing
A Republican state lawmaker submitted a bill Wednesday to expand Medicaid to thousands more low-income Ohioans, with the hope that by adding changes such as copayments for some of the newly eligible that she could sway more of her GOP colleagues to back the idea. The plan from state Rep. ...
Ohio to bolster checks on home health care workers
Ohio officials plan to bolster criminal background checks for those home health-care workers who provide direct care to the disabled and elderly. The state has received a $2.1 million federal grant to provide increased reviews for more than 100,000 workers who serve patients in Medicaid- and Medicare-funded settings. Gov. John ...
Ohio bill would fix errors in sports safety law
State lawmakers moved Wednesday to correct a new state law that inadvertently allows coaches and referees in youth sports leagues to be criminally prosecuted for violating rules regarding players' head injuries. The House voted unanimously Wednesday to fix the error in the law. The Senate passed an earlier version of ...
Honda to produce new Acura NSX in central Ohio
Honda's new version of its Acura NSX sports car will be produced at a new plant inside one of the automaker's former facilities in central Ohio, Honda said Tuesday. The new $70 million plant, called the Performance Manufacturing Center, will be inside the former North American Logistics facility and adjacent ...
Ohio gov hasn't lost hope on Medicaid expansion
Gov. John Kasich hasn't given up hope that the Legislature will expand Medicaid under the federal health care law, even though the plan is unlikely to be included state's two-year budget. Kasich, a Republican, told reporters Wednesday that he's giving lawmakers some breathing room to review Medicaid, the federal-state health ...
Gov: W.Va. to expand Medicaid, cover 92K uninsured
West Virginia will expand Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul through a plan announced Thursday by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, which would extend coverage to an estimated 91,500 uninsured low-income residents. The decision follows a financial analysis that concluded that more than $5 billion in promised federal funds will ...
Ohio executes man who killed, raped 6-month-old
One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio for the 1998 killing of his live-in girlfriend's daughter, Autumn Carter, ...
Local setbacks vex GOP governors eyeing 2016 race
Republican governors are often seen as innovative policymakers and potential presidential candidates, but a few are struggling with political or ethical problems that might crimp their ambitions. Two governors eyeing possible White House bids — Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — suddenly find themselves fending off ...
Ohio addictions chief addresses overdose deaths
Continued bad news about drug overdose deaths in Ohio is focusing attention on calls to expand Medicaid coverage for more state residents. The head of the state's addictions agency said Tuesday that data showing a record high number of deaths from prescription painkillers and other drugs in 2011 is one ...
Ohio sees record high overdose deaths in 2011
Ohioans are dying from drug overdoses at record-high rates, the state Department of Health said Friday as it released 2011 figures that place the blame on prescription painkillers and also show a worsening heroin problem. The number of people who died of accidental overdoses jumped 14 percent to 1,765 from ...
Future uncertain for Medicaid expansion in Ohio
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's plan for expanding Medicaid under the new federal health care law and giving more low-income Ohioans access to health insurance might not be dead, but whatever comes next will have a much different look. Republicans who control the state legislature are taking the Medicaid expansion out ...
Message From Ohio
Voters in Ohio sent a pair of messages on Tuesday that reinforce the chaotic nature of the American electorate at this time, voting to both repeal a law that limited collective bargaining for public workers and to in effect block parts of the Obama health law. The much larger issue ...
Election Day 2011
For most Americans, this Election Day is dominated by local issues like school levies, but political experts will be combing through results in some key states to see if they can get a better fix on what might happen in 2012. That is especially true in Ohio, where labor unions ...
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