Ohio Gov. John Kasich has looked to an unlikely source to convince his fellow Republicans in Ohio to back Medicaid expansion to cover the near-poor. “What would Ronald Reagan do?” he asked in an op-ed in USA Today earlier this week. The Gipper and Republican icon “expanded Medicaid, not just once but several times,” Kasich wrote.
"For example, in 1986, President Reagan let states add poor children and pregnant women to Medicaid. And after learning that disabled children could receive Medicaid care only in hospitals and nursing homes, he let states provide them care at home also. Ohio resisted both expansions for a decade but saw powerful results for some of our most vulnerable citizens once we made them."
