{"id":1056158,"date":"2025-09-22T14:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056158"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:25:55","slug":"ohio-senator-jon-husted-lies-again-about-medicaid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/ohio-senator-jon-husted-lies-again-about-medicaid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Senator Jon Husted Lies (Again) About Medicaid Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Txb4NYLpm7U\"><em>Husted:<\/em><\/a><em> &#8220;Nobody is going to lose their Medicaid coverage in our state.\u201d Meanwhile, experts predict nearly half a million Ohioans could lose health care coverage due to Husted\u2019s vote<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Ohio Senator Jon Husted lied to Ohioans once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Txb4NYLpm7U\">falsely claiming in an interview<\/a> that \u201cNobody is going to lose their Medicaid coverage in our state.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, this was an outright lie.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/how-will-the-2025-reconciliation-law-affect-the-uninsured-rate-in-each-state\/\"> Nearly 490,000<\/a> Ohioans will lose their health insurance after Senator Husted voted to slash Medicaid and spike insurance costs for Ohioans \u2014 including 290,000 Medicaid recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just last week, Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5512408-gop-senate-democrats-funding-bill\/\">proposed legislation<\/a> that would have reversed these cuts to Medicaid \u2014 but Senator Husted voted against that bill, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to Senator Husted lying about his record of cutting Medicaid, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSenator Husted is lucky he wasn\u2019t hooked up to a polygraph yesterday because his lie about voting to kick nearly half a million Ohioans off their health insurance would have broken the machine. Ohioans deserve a leader who will lower costs and protect their health care, not a dishonest politician who puts his party ahead of his constituents. Senator Husted is running scared, and Ohioans will hold him accountable by voting him out next November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FACT: Yes, Senator \u2013 Ohioans will lose their Medicaid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/how-will-the-2025-reconciliation-law-affect-the-uninsured-rate-in-each-state\/\">Nearly 490,000 Ohioans<\/a> will lose their health insurance under Trump\u2019s budget bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FACT: Rural communities will be hit hardest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nearly<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/1-4-rural-areas-rely-medicaid-cuts-democrats\/story?id=123389229\"> 1 in 4<\/a> rural areas rely on Medicaid \u2014 and Ohio is no exception.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_on_rural_hospitals.pdf\">11 rural Ohio hospitals<\/a> are at risk of closing due to Trump\u2019s budget.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rural communities in Ohio will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/how-might-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-the-enacted-reconciliation-package-affect-rural-areas\/\">lose $5.6 billion<\/a> in Medicaid funds over the next 10 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FACT: Cuts to Medicaid remain deeply, deeply unpopular.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">vast majority<\/a> \u2014 71% \u2014 of Americans oppose cuts to Medicaid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">Over half<\/a> \u2014 55% \u2014 of Republicans oppose these cuts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">73%<\/a> of Independents oppose these cuts as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husted: &#8220;Nobody is going to lose their Medicaid coverage in our state.\u201d Meanwhile, experts predict nearly half a million Ohioans could lose health care coverage due to Husted\u2019s vote Yesterday, Ohio Senator Jon Husted lied to Ohioans once again, falsely claiming in an interview that \u201cNobody is going to lose their Medicaid coverage in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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