The Ohio Hospital Association and the Ohio Alliance for Health Transformation are gathering signatures to put expanding the state's Medicaid program on the 2014 ballot, according to a WOSU Public Media report.
The groups are working to collect signatures from 1,000 registered voters to get language approved for a petition to expand Medicaid, according to the report. If the state attorney general approves the petition, the expansion advocates will then need to collect hundreds of thousands of additional signatures to put the issue on the ballot.
Conservative state lawmakers have opposed the proposed expansion, saying Medicaid is a failed system adding to the nation's debt, according to the report.
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