{"id":2457267,"date":"2025-07-09T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kasich-chides-congress-for-not-fixing-problem-he-helped-create\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:49:51","slug":"kasich-chides-congress-for-not-fixing-problem-he-helped-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kasich-chides-congress-for-not-fixing-problem-he-helped-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasich Chides Congress For Not Fixing Problem He Helped Create"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkasich-chides-congress-for-not-fixing-problem-he-helped-create%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2457267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary critiques former Ohio Governor John Kasich&#8217;s stance on a recent Republican budget reconciliation bill aimed at addressing America&#8217;s entitlement issues. While Kasich condemned the bill for failing to seriously tackle the nation&#8217;s fiscal problems, the article highlights his role in worsening those problems during his governorship by embracing Obamacare&#8217;s Medicaid expansion for able-bodied adults. Kasich&#8217;s expansion significantly increased Medicaid enrollment and costs in Ohio, funded largely through a provider tax scheme that effectively shifted the financial burden to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-america-committing-suicide\/\" title=\"Is America Committing Suicide?\">federal taxpayers<\/a>. Despite defending the expansion on moral grounds, kasich prioritized able-bodied adults over vulnerable populations, such as individuals with disabilities who endured lengthy waits for care. The piece argues that Kasich&#8217;s criticisms of the reconciliation bill and calls for fiscal responsibility are hypocritical given his own contributions to fiscal challenges and misplaced priorities during his tenure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Viewers who watched <em>Morning Joe<\/em> last week would be forgiven for coming down with a case of whiplash. Appearing on the MSNBC program as the Senate considered Republicans&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-stresses-importance-of-democratic-unity-to-pass-covid-bill\/\" title=\"Schumer Stresses Importance Of Democratic Unity To Pass Covid ...\">budget reconciliation measure<\/a>, former Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/republicans-have-failed-to-explain-the-why-of-this-bill-former-gov-kasich-242520133771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attacked<\/a> the legislation for failing to solve America&rsquo;s entitlement woes.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism would have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/02\/why-its-hard-to-make-sense-of-the-mishmash-in-republicans-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had more merit<\/a> had Kasich not helped to worsen the nation&rsquo;s fiscal woes during his tenure as governor. By publicly promoting Obamacare&rsquo;s Medicaid expansion to able-bodied adults, Kasich helped to create the problem that the reconciliation bill begins to address.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Embraced Obamacare &mdash; And a Fiscal <\/strong><strong>&ldquo;Scam&rdquo;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kasich, who served as House Budget Committee chairman when the Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton balanced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">federal budget<\/a> in the 1990s, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5379130-john-kasich-criticizes-republicans-debt-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decried<\/a> the reconciliation bill as &ldquo;another effort to kick the can down the road when it comes to the tremendous fiscal problems that we&rsquo;re facing in this country.&rdquo; He lamented that &ldquo;we are racing toward the edge of a cliff &hellip; The national debt keeps rising, and there&rsquo;s no serious appetite in Washington for fundamentally reforming the federal government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But while running the Buckeye State, Kasich exacerbated the fiscal cliff that Washington faces by embracing Obamacare&rsquo;s expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied adults. Data from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) tells the tale. An expansion estimated to cover a maximum of 447,000 individuals had enrolled more than half a million <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ExpansionEnrollmentExplosion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">within its first year<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-Budget-Crisis-In-Three-Parts-2-6-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exceeded 725,000<\/a> during Kasich&rsquo;s tenure. As a result, a program projected to cost $7.4 billion in its first three years ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-Budget-Crisis-In-Three-Parts-2-6-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">costing nearly double that amount<\/a>, or $14.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>How could Kasich afford to fund such a costly Medicaid expansion? In large part through a provider tax, a mechanism that Joe Biden called a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2016\/02\/16\/biden-was-right-medicaid-provider-taxes-a-scam-that-should-be-scrapped\/?sh=7873604a1c6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scam<\/a>,&rdquo; whereby assessments on hospitals and other medical facilities are used to generate additional federal matching dollars &mdash; and then sent right back to those hospitals. In Kasich&rsquo;s last year in office, this money laundering scheme <a href=\"https:\/\/familiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MCD_States-Share-10-Percent_Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered the vast majority<\/a> of the state&rsquo;s share of coverage costs &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >meaning federal taxpayers effectively picked<\/a> up more than 99 percent of Ohio&rsquo;s Medicaid expansion tab.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Prioritized the Able-Bodied Over the Vulnerable<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To defend this entitlement expansion, Kasich in 2013 famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702303448104579151631504257034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">invoked his religious beliefs<\/a> in favor of Medicaid expansion: &ldquo;When you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he&rsquo;s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The governor never explained why the first pontiff did not exhort him to prioritize people like Nathan Narowitz. Narowitz, a 24-year-old nonverbal Ohio resident, served as one of the plaintiffs in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/2016\/03\/disability_rights_ohio_sues_jo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2016 lawsuit<\/a> against Kasich&rsquo;s administration over its treatment of individuals with disabilities. Narowitz waited for years to receive Medicaid treatment for his disability &mdash; one of more than 62,000 Ohio individuals with disabilities on Medicaid waiting lists in 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WAITING-FOR-HELP-The-Medicaid-Waiting-List-Crisis-07302018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to FGA<\/a> &mdash; while Kasich, like Democrats in Washington, focused instead on covering able-bodied adults.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hypocritical Messenger<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kasich accurately noted in his MSNBC appearance that Congress should embrace more comprehensive reforms to all of our entitlement programs than those <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/02\/why-its-hard-to-make-sense-of-the-mishmash-in-republicans-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">included in the reconciliation measure<\/a>. But lawmakers should not take any lessons in fiscal responsibility from a former governor who abused the very same provider tax scam that the reconciliation bill will help regulate.<\/p>\n<p>Nor should they heed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/republicans-have-failed-to-explain-the-why-of-this-bill-former-gov-kasich-242520133771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lectures<\/a> on &ldquo;saving those people who are the most vulnerable&rdquo; from someone who prioritized coverage of able-bodied adults, 62 percent of whom <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Welfare-Work-Requirements-LSG-paper-4-14-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report no income<\/a> from work, while individuals with disabilities spent years waiting for care. When it comes to controlling entitlement spending, John Kasich serves as proof positive that those who aren&rsquo;t part of the solution are part of the problem.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasich&#8217;s criticism of budget bill lacks credibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2457268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/24686017846_c609054c19_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4402,36155,58701,38235,35795],"class_list":["post-2457267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congress","tag-government-accountability","tag-kasich","tag-policy-reform","tag-political-criticism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/24686017846_c609054c19_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457271,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457267\/revisions\/2457271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}