VP Pence spreading fake news about Ohio and Medicaid
Good article. Explains how Pence distorted the stats on OHIO. Shame on him.
VP Pence spreading ‘fake news’ about Ohio
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170714/vp-pence-spreading-fake-news-about-ohio
By Darrel Rowland
The Columbus Dispatch
Posted Jul 14, 2017 at 4:32 PM Updated at 11:54 AM
About a week after the White House spread misinformation about Ohio’s Medicaid program, Vice President Mike Pence falsely said Friday that 60,000 Ohioans are going without care because of the state’s Medicaid expansion.
“I know Gov. (John) Kasich isn’t with us, but I suspect that he’s very troubled to know that in Ohio alone, nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists, leaving them without the care they need for months or even years,” Pence asserted at the National Governors Association gathering Friday in Providence, Rhode Island.
That prompted Kasich’s press secretary, Jon Keeling, to tweet: “That’s what we call #fakenews.” Keeling included a link.....................
Medicaid officials also said there was no truth to a separate claim about recipients of Ohio’s Medicaid expansion “being put ahead of 60,000 disabled Ohioans who rely on Medicaid but are currently on a waiting list.”
Pence’s remarks came in the context of criticizing Obamacare, which allowed states to expand Medicaid. More than 700,000 poor adult Ohioans gained health-care coverage, with the federal government picking up virtually all of the tab.
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Shortly after a transcript of Pence’s speech became public, Kasich’s communications department tweeted, “The claim is not accurate. It’s been fact checked twice.”------------------------
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But Kaiser itself analyzed the data and concluded “there does not appear to be a relationship between a state’s Medicaid expansion status and changes in its ... waiver waiting list.” Kaiser noted that about 40 percent did not qualify for a waiver when they signed up for one, while as many as 90 percent of those with certain types of disabilities already are getting some form of non-waiver Medicaid help............................
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