John Kasich: Ohio Will 'Have to Figure Something Out' if SCOTUS Ends ACA Subsidies
The Ohio governor's Obamacare plan B.
Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich talks with reporters after meeting with House and Senate Republican leaders and fellow governors-elect at the U.S. Capitol December 1, 2010 in Washington, DC.
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—Most Republican governors have resisted taking money offered by the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Ohio Governor John Kasich took it right away, and has chastised critics in religious terms.
"When you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter," told the Columbus Dispatch in 2013, "he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor. You better have a good answer."