Kasich: Health care plan ‘makes no sense’

Associated Press

MUNICH

Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he supports repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act but thinks a plan floated by Congressional Republicans to phase out the expanded Medicaid program that’s providing health care coverage to previously uninsured Ohioans is a “very bad idea.”

Kasich’s comments came during an appearance Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” broadcast from Munich.

He said one-third of the 700,000 Ohioans who have gotten medical coverage under the expanded program have mental-health and substance-abuse problems and “to turn our backs on them makes no sense.”