For Ohioans who worked long and hard to pass the Health Care Freedom Amendment, it is very satisfying to read The Hill report regarding labor unions who are now coming out publicly against Obamacare. Last week, the OLC published an article about the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers and their dissatisfaction with [...]
If you were to write a novel about a corrupt administration targeting its political foes, it couldn’t get more astonishing than what we see unfurling before our very eyes with the IRS intimidation of tea party groups. On May 17th, the OLC published an article discussing this issue and its worrisome ties to Obamacare given [...]
Ohio Republicans opposed to Obamacare are in a unique position to watch a strange confluence of events. On the one hand, we have the Republicans in Congress doing everything they can to slow the implementation of the ACA – voting to defund Obamacare in the US House budget, turning down requests for more dollars for implementation, voting [...]
For tea party and 912 groups in Ohio, the story of the IRS illegally targeting patriot organizations is finally seeing the light of day. Now we are learning that the harassment was much more widespread with the IRS going after Jewish groups, pro-life groups, True the Vote and the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law as well. [...]
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers has called for Obamacare’s repeal in a very straightforward statement outlining the ACA’s many defects. While they are coming rather late to the party, the roofers are welcome nonetheless, and it is hoped, that more of the democrat base will follow as they witness their own [...]
The results of a study in Oregon measuring the health outcomes of a Medicaid expansion were released on May 2nd in the New England Journal of Medicine to much public interest and comment. The Oregon study looked at a 2008 Medicaid expansion that was done by lottery and compared the health outcomes of those who [...]
Governor Kasich and members of the General Assembly who are determined to expand Medicaid by hook, line or sinker, are doing just that when they tell us if Ohio does not take the federal money to pay for expansion, some other state will. Christina Corieri dispels this lie in her Wall Street Journal editorial, States [...]
Having already said “No” to a state run health care exchange and “No” to Medicaid expansion, South Carolina wasn’t finished showing its disapproval of Obamacare. In an act of defiance sure to warm the hearts of the majority of Americans, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted 65-39 to criminalize the implementation of Obamacare with [...]
Even with a Republican controlled House and Senate, constant vigilance is required to ensure that the destructive tentacles of the Affordable Care Act are kept at bay as much as possible in the Buckeye state. On an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis, HB3 was passed by the Ohio Assembly and will be sent to Governor Kasich who [...]
The Governor’s proposal to expand Medicaid in Ohio is looking more and more curious. As Obamacare continues to crumble under its own weight, one has to question why a Republican Governor who has spoken out against the Affordable Care Act would choose to implement it through expanding Medicaid. Compound that by the fact that this [...]
A guest column by Knox County 912 Member, Sally Kerwood The way Ohio schools are funded was deemed unconstitutional in 1997 in the case of DeRolph v. State, in 2000 inDeRolph II and again in 2002 in DeRolph III. The reason: “School systems in areas with higher property values could much more easily meet the needs of and provide more opportunities for [...]
Members of the Ohio Hospital Association can breathe a sigh of relief when they read the latest piece by Michael Cannon in National Review Online, Obama’s Damaging Admission. Mr. Cannon informs us of a little known fact that could have big consequences for the Medicaid expansion debate here in Ohio. Acknowledging that Obamacare has not [...]
The full Ohio House will have a chance to put their stamp on their rewrite of Kasich’s budget when HB 59 moves to the House floor for final passage on Thursday. Republicans in the House Finance Committee removed the more controversial items from the budget including the severance tax, the sales tax and Medicaid expansion. [...]
If you are searching for an ally in the fight against Obamacare, you cannot count on everyone in the Ohio Republican Party. As liberty groups around the state implore their Representatives to say No to Governor Kasich’s Medicaid expansion and the ensuing Obamacare funds, at least one Republican State Rep has assured constituents of the [...]
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Representative Barbara Sears plans to introduce an “Ohio-grown” alternative to Medicaid expansion where federal dollars allocated for Obamacare would be used to buy private health insurance for the expansion population. Sears calls her plan a three-year pilot and hopes its temporary nature will ease concerns about the security of long-term [...]
OLC would like to recognize Representative Ron Maag who spoke for Republican voters throughout Ohio when he questioned the ability of the federal government to finance Medicaid expansion long-term. Addressing Mike Abrams, CEO of the Ohio Hospital Association, during the House Finance Committee hearings on the Kasich budget last Friday, Rep. Maag asked, “Forty six [...]
We the People Convention 4682 State Route 43 Kent, Ohio 44240 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 12, 2013 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Kent, OH - Tom Zawistowski, Candidate for Ohio Republican Party Chairman, made a statement today concerning news reports about his opponent’s delinquent taxes. Zawistowski said “I received a call from a reporter at [...]
Many Republican lawmakers are beginning to realize that Governor Kasich’s Medicaid expansion proposal is unsustainable: Ohio cannot count on the bankrupt federal government to keep Obama’s promise to pay 100% of the cost of expansion for three years, declining to 90% by 2020. Ohioans will be left holding the bag for this as they are [...]
by guest columnist, Jon Morrow Tactics and strategy are ever so important in the war we wage against the leftist extremist that seek to deprive us of our freedom. The tactic of the left has been to go after our future by co-opting our schools. More and more Americans and Ohioans are being led away [...]
The month of April is a crucial time in our effort to stop the implementation of Obamacare in Ohio. Our campaign began as a fight to stop Governor Kasich’s proposed Medicaid expansion. We won this fight. Ohio statehouse Republicans heard us and agree that Medicaid expansion as proposed by Kasich is an unsustainable and failed [...]
