Medicaid Expansion Continues in Ohio, Would Require Enrollees to Share in Cost

Ohio Governor John Kasich has signed a state budget that continues the expansion of Medicaid, the Associated Press reports. The plan would require about 1 million low-income Ohio residents to pay a monthly charge for Medicaid health coverage.

However, federal regulators would have to approve requiring some adults to pay into a health savings account regardless of their income: "Beneficiaries, except pregnant women, could be cut from the program if they don’t annually contribute 2 percent of their family income or $99, whichever is less."

More than 2.9 million Ohio residents are on Medicaid, making up about a quarter of the state's population.