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Ohio’s Medicaid program covers 3 million people — but major changes now underway could reshape how hundreds of thousands of Ohioans get care, how hospitals stay afloat, and how much pressure lands on families when coverage falls short.
As federal funding tightens and Ohio lawmakers debate a dramatic overhaul of the program, the stakes are especially high in Central Ohio, where Medicaid helps fund everything from children’s care and pregnancy care to mental health treatment, nursing home services, and care for people with disabilities. For many families, this isn’t someone else’s issue: it could affect whether a parent can find a doctor, whether a child gets specialist care, whether a hospital can absorb uncompensated care, and whether more costs get passed on to everyone else through overcrowded ERs, longer waits, and rising healthcare bills.
With leaders and experts, we unpack what’s changing, what Ohio leaders are proposing, and what it could mean for Central Ohioans.
Featuring John McCarthy, Founding Partner, Speire HealthCare Strategies; Amy Rohling McGee, President, Health Policy Institute of Ohio; Dr. Buhari Mohammed, Chief Executive Officer, Heart of Ohio Family Health, Louis W. Blessing III State Senator (R-Colerain Township), with moderator Laura A. Bischoff, Ohio Politics and State Government Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch.
If you would like to dive more deeply into this topic, our friends at the Columbus Metropolitan Library suggest checking out Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine, by Luke Messac, 2024.
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