John Kasich said he doesn’t support Obamacare even though he took Obamacare’s medicaid expansion dollars, saying he was merely bringing back ‘$14 billion of Ohio money back to Ohio’:
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JAKE: I hear what you’re saying. But I’m surprised you’re saying that you oppose Obamacare. A lot of republican governors who refuse the Medicaid money, who refuse Obamacare, federal funding, would, I’m sure, take issue with the notion that you are an opponent of Obamacare given that you have used Obamacare dollars in your state for Ohio citizens.
KASICH: But, Jake, look, I oppose Obamacare. It’s been reported by the “Associated Press.” we had a little issue with them where they said one thing and they retracted it. They said, yeah, the governor is opposed to Obamacare. But because you oppose Obamacare doesn’t mean when you have an opportunity to bring these $14 billion of Ohio money back to Ohio, that’s not Obamacare. That’s Medicaid. You know the difference between Medicaid and Obamacare. And with Medicaid we’ve cut our growth rate from 9%, this budget it will be about 4%, 4.5%. And we’re treating a lot of people. Nobody ever said — I’ve never said I was against the Medicaid program. I would like it to be block-granted to me is I can be more helpful in helping those who are poor and live in poverty. But I also want to hold them accountable to get them work and get out of that situation. But we have programs in Ohio to deliver value-based medicine where we are incentivizing physicians, insurance companies to be in a position of where we deliver better health care at lower prices. That’s where
I think we have to go. And I think Obamacare’s disrupted too much.