Ohio鈥檚 U.S. senators appear to be split on the latest attempt to repeal and replace the federal Affordable Care Act. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has been against it, and Republican Sen. Rob Portman appears to be heading toward a "yes" vote.
In a conference call with reporters, seemed to be leaning toward supporting what鈥檚 been called , which would cap Medicaid, reduce federal funding and distribute it to states as block grants to use as they see fit.
鈥淚 think Ohio will do a good job 鈥� better than the federal government, probably because we know what the needs are, closer to what those needs are, like the opioid addiction,鈥� he said.
Ohio and the other 31 states that expanded Medicaid would see that funding phased out.
out that the bill 鈥渆liminates the guardrails that protect some of the most vulnerable among us.鈥� And it also won鈥檛 include $45 billion in additional funding for the opioid crisis, which the GOP鈥檚 previous repeal-and-replace bill would have.
