For the first time since lawmakers required it in the budget, administration made a trip to the Ohio Statehouse to ask a panel of legislators to release hundreds of millions of dollars to fund .
The Controlling Board voted to approve Medicaid鈥檚 use of more than $264 million. Republican was among the yes votes. However he and many Republican lawmakers would still like to end Medicaid expansion. They tried to do in the budget, but Kasich vetoed that.
鈥淏ut it鈥檚 not happening right now, so we鈥檝e got to deal with what鈥檚 in front of us. And I think what鈥檚 in front of us right now is an administration who is communicating a commitment to some waivers to the Medicaid program that鈥檒l make true changes and make true improvement,鈥� said Coley.
Coley says without those waivers to control costs, he would鈥檝e voted down the appropriation request. The state needed that money in order to get $630 million in matching funds from the feds.
