COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands more Ohioans can soon enroll in the Medicaid program after a legislative panel on Monday cleared the governor's request for the state to spend federal dollars to provide them with health coverage.
Ohio recently received approval from the federal government to expand Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor and disabled. However, Gov. John Kasich's administration needed state legislative approval to spend federal money on an estimated 366,000 newly eligible residents.
The GOP-controlled Legislature has balked at the expansion, so administration officials asked the little-known Controlling Board, made up of six lawmakers and an administration official, for the authority to spend $561.7 million in federal money this budget year and almost $2 billion next year on expansion.
The board signed off on Kasich's spending request with a 5-2 vote.
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