Ohio health

Source topic or question: The Health Insurance Denial Resolution Program

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BACKGROUND: Health care costs keep climbing, and too many Ohio families pay their premiums every month only to open a denial letter when they get hurt or sick and need care most. The medical claim denial process is confusing, time-consuming, and like trying to see inside a black box. Most patients never think to appeal a denial, even though Ohio law already gives them the right to an internal appeal and an independent external review. Furthermore, appeals frequently succeed. But what happens most often is that families give up, pay out of pocket, or go without the treatment they’ve already paid for through their premiums. That’s an affordability and fairness problem the Attorney General can do something about.

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Source topic or question: Drug enforcement, treatment, and border security

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Keith will take on Ohio’s drug epidemic by reducing demand through addiction treatment services, prosecuting suppliers, cutting off supply chains at the border, and supporting recovery efforts for victims. He will address the impact of illegal immigration and cartel activity on Ohio communities by supporting President Trump’s strict border security policies. Keith is committed to protecting Ohio neighborhoods from rising crime and the economic challenges caused by unchecked migration.

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Source topic or question: Aging in place

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Eric and I have had to balance the demands of caring for aging family members while raising children, and we understand how difficult this is for working families. My opponent’s pals in Congress voted overwhelmingly to cut Medicaid benefits for home and community-based services, but I believe that we need to support families and caregivers as they help our seniors age in place, at home. We can’t sit idly by; we must invest in career pathways and training for our long-term care workforce, who staff assisted living and nursing home facilities, to keep up with greater demand as Ohioans age.

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Source topic or question: Lowering the Cost of Health Care

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I’ll reduce prescription drug prices by launching Ohio Rx, an online platform that will leverage Ohio’s purchasing power from its Medicaid single pharmacy benefit manager to drive down drug prices for all Ohioans. I will also push to require that out-of-pocket purchases for medication counts towards Ohioans’ health insurance deductibles.

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Source topic or question: Lowering the Cost of Health Care

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Too many Ohioans are facing skyrocketing insurance premiums, and having to choose between putting other necessities on hold or forgoing insurance altogether. As governor, I will work to bring far more transparency to insurance and hospital pricing, lower healthcare premiums in the process, and support small businesses in covering their employees. I will strengthen Ohio’s efforts to crack down on surprise billing and build on the bipartisan effort to end predatory collection practices that only hurt Ohio families.

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Source topic or question: Building Safer Communities

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As governor, I will prioritize community partnership with law enforcement, fully fund our local law enforcement, support our first responders and invest in addiction treatment, mental health services and community programming across our state.

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Source topic or question: Lowering the Cost of Health Care

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We are all just one healthcare disaster away from losing everything. No one should go bankrupt because of a necessary medical procedure, but I’ve heard far too many stories from Ohioans who have experienced this.

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Source topic or question: Lowering the Cost of Health Care

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As governor, I will protect against attacks on Medicaid and Medicare from Columbus and Washington by helping Ohioans enroll and stay on Medicaid by eliminating unnecessary red tape, shortening approval wait times and eliminating the waste, fraud and abuse that drives up costs and jeopardizes Ohioans’ care.

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Source topic or question: Lowering the Cost of Health Care

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I’ll reduce prescription drug prices by launching Ohio Rx, an online platform that will leverage Ohio’s purchasing power from its Medicaid single pharmacy benefit manager to drive down drug prices for all Ohioans. I will also push to require that out-of-pocket purchases for medication counts towards Ohioans’ health insurance deductibles.

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Source topic or question: Acton–Pepper Shared Ticket Priorities

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As a doctor, I’ve seen firsthand how important it is that Ohioans can both access and afford the care they need — and how right now, that simply isn’t the case for so many people in our state. Ohioans are struggling; more than 160,000 people dropped their healthcare coverage through the ACA since 2025, 11 rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and prescription drug prices are rising.

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Source topic or question: Building Safer Communities

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As governor, I will prioritize community partnership with law enforcement, fully fund our local law enforcement, support our first responders and invest in addiction treatment, mental health services and community programming across our state.

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Source topic or question: LOWERING HEALTHCARE COSTS:

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4.Lower Healthcare Premiums – Too many Ohioans are facing skyrocketing insurance premiums, and having to choose between putting other necessities on hold or forgoing insurance altogether. As governor, I will work to bring far more transparency to insurance and hospital pricing, lower healthcare premiums in the process, and support small businesses in covering their employees.

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Source topic or question: Lowering the Cost of Health Care

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Too many Ohioans are facing skyrocketing insurance premiums, and having to choose between putting other necessities on hold or forgoing insurance altogether. As governor, I will work to bring far more transparency to insurance and hospital pricing, lower healthcare premiums in the process, and support small businesses in covering their employees. I will strengthen Ohio’s efforts to crack down on surprise billing and build on the bipartisan effort to end predatory collection practices that only hurt Ohio families.

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Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Expand addiction treatment.

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Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Expand rural hospitals and telemedicine.

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Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Increase therapists and school-based mental health services.

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Source topic or question: A Healthy, Affordable, and Desirable Ohio for Everyone+

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The commitment of this campaign is an Ohio for everyone and for anyone. Whether you want to live in suburbia, a small Ohio village, an urban metropolis, rural Ohio, or Appalachian Ohio; we want to make it a place that is affordable, accessible, and healthy. You should be able to live in these places and still have ready access to a job, to education, to healthcare, to nature, to stores and entertainment, to healthy food. You should be able to walk around where you live. You shouldn’t have to suffer crime or pollution. You should be able to live the life you want.

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Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Health care should be portable, transparent, and focused on outcomes.

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Source topic or question: Homelessness+

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We will build the infrastructure of care that Ohio currently lacks. This means a significant expansion of community mental health centers and outpatient psychiatric services, accessible and affordable in every part of the state. It means more residential treatment capacity for serious mental illness. It means accessible addiction treatment including medication-assisted treatment. It means permanent supportive housing for those with chronic mental illness or disability who need ongoing support to live stably. And it means robust case management: people who help individuals navigate housing,benefits, healthcare, and employment, and who maintain relationships with them over time.

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Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Create interstate healthcare standards allowing insurance and care providers to operate across state lines

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Source topic or question: Social Security and Medicare

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Eric believes that Social Security and Medicare are promises the United States has made to seniors that must be honored. These programs form the backbone of retirement security and healthcare for millions of seniors who worked hard, paid into the system, and earned the benefits they were promised. Eric strongly opposes any effort to cut benefits or raise the retirement age. Instead, he will work to strengthen and defend these programs for both current retirees and future generations, without burdening working families or those nearing retirement.

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Source topic or question: Social Security and Medicare

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Eric supports bipartisan solutions to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare, including rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the system and ensuring that Washington stops raiding these programs to fund wasteful spending.

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