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Chuck 22 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.599 Ingram on fifty five krs the talk station. 23 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.120 It's seven thirty one fifty five KO see the talk station. 24 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:22.560 Real exciting day for me in studio representing District forty 25 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:24.879 five here in the state of Ohio, Jennifer Grows. Always 26 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.079 great to see. It's been too long since I've seen you, 27 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.120 but it's a real pleasure having you here today. 28 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:31.400 Thank you, Thank you, Brian. It's good to be here. 29 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.680 All right. Since we were on the topic of property taxes, 30 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.480 you were listening, I will we heard Dusty and I 31 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:39.719 know there's a budget going on now and all these 32 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:41.599 things we're going to talk about the budget. We're certainly 33 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.000 going to talk about Medicaid because you're on the Medicaid board. 34 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:46.280 And I don't know if you heard my conversation with 35 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:51.439 Jack windsor earlier. He got the report regarding the Lexus 36 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:55.359 Nexus dive into income levels and how terrible that was 37 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.439 that all these people out there, some people with a 38 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:01.640 million dollar plus resources, still on the Medicaid system. Medicaid fraud, 39 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.359 waste and abuse has been a known problem here in 40 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.719 the state of Ohio. For a long time. So for 41 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:07.680 my listeners, we will definitely get to that. But I 42 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:12.000 want to start with the property tax thing, because you 43 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.039 know there's that petition being circulated. Just eliminate it all together. 44 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.639 And I'm struggling with how I mean. While it sounds 45 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:20.639 like a wonderful idea because I hate looking at my 46 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.080 property tax bill, which has gone up dramatically since we 47 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.639 built a house, but I don't know how funding for 48 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:29.240 anything would work in the absence of that, since everything 49 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.840 is built around that property tax. So putting that issue aside, 50 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:36.080 there is that petition circulating, but in terms of what 51 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:40.719 we were warned about this potential second round of Matt Nolan, 52 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.680 president of the County Auditors Association, speaking with Paula Krishnaver 53 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.759 at CPO, said, listen, you embrace yourself. It's coming again. 54 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.240 You're going to see another twenty percent jump, right, And 55 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.400 there are seniors out there. I feel so sorry for 56 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.240 seniors on a fixed income and they've been in their house, 57 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.120 it's all paid off. They think they've got nothing to 58 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:01.360 worry about except me, and it's an upkeep and then boom, 59 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:03.560 you get a property tax bill that's jumped by one 60 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.759 thousand dollars or something crazy like that. So how do 61 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.199 we address this? Dusty said, this is the genesis of 62 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:12.319 this was that twenty mili floor that the school's got, 63 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.719 which allows them to get an ever increasing larger and 64 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.159 larger amount, which is why our tax bills keep going up. 65 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:18.800 That's right. 66 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:19.800 What's your take to all this? 67 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.599 Well, first of all, Brian, you know, we know that 68 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:27.840 homeowners are being crushed by property tax, and especially our 69 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.599 over sixty five who've given largely they've lived in the 70 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.400 community's twenty thirty forty years, but they have unrecognized gains 71 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.639 on their homes and so a lot of people we 72 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.439 can't wait for them to move and say move to 73 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:45.680 somewhere else and use your record your unrecognized gains. So 74 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.240 it's an issue that the House is very very aware of. 75 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:53.120 And we do actually have a bill, it's HB one 76 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.400 eighty six. But let me say we have a group 77 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.520 of bills and we're calling this from the House. Just 78 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.680 came out yesterday in Columbus at a press release with 79 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:13.639 Representatives Roma and Representative David Thomas, and we're calling it 80 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.279 the Property Tax Relief Now Act. So HB one six 81 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.920 is the one that addresses the twenty mil floor. And 82 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.920 what it would do is it limits the growth of 83 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:29.600 the school district twenty mil floor to the rate of inflation. 84 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.240 So what that means is the only increase the schools 85 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.480 would get. Remember how Dusty was talking about the windfall again, Well, 86 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:39.279 this would limit it to the rate of inflation. 87 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:40.800 Now, I understand that the. 88 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.920 Average person who works for a capitalistic company and not 89 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.399 the government doesn't typically get a three point five percent 90 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:52.399 raise every year. However, it will limit the schools. That 91 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.639 that bill will limit the schools to a and the 92 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.639 rate of inflation, which will greatly help because we do 93 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.360 see that in anuary we will have another windfall of 94 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.240 property tax increase and we can't have that. 95 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.639 No, we cannot. But you know, in terms of addressing 96 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:09.639 the schools, oh my god, what are we gonna do. 97 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.920 We don't get an increase. We can't keep up with inflation. 98 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.160 Problem solved, that's right, Oh, yes, that's right. And fortunately, 99 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.040 at least right now, projections indicate and we've already seen 100 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.480 the inflation is down. Now, it's gonna be terrible in 101 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.600 years where you have like nine percent inflation, But if 102 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.759 you're looking at a two which is what the FED 103 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.839 usually is looking for in terms of acceptable desirable. Just 104 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.680 like two percent, most of us can swallow. 105 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:35.560 That, that's right. 106 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.959 I can swallow a two percent increase of my property 107 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.160 tax built, but not a thirty percent increase. 108 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.199 That's right, and it will be recalculated. 109 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.240 You know, there's a It creates a property tax credit 110 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.279 that's equal to the amount of the tax generated by 111 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.920 the twenty mil floor. And I can't get into particular details. 112 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.800 This just came out yesterday, but I'd encourage everyone to 113 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:58.120 talk to their legislator. 114 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:01.240 But this is a whole entire pack. So not only does. 115 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.040 It address the twenty mil floor, but it also addresses 116 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:07.040 those that are on the homestead exemption. It gives local 117 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:10.279 government the opportunity to match what the state does so 118 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.000 the funding. Remember that your local property tax. Let me 119 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.920 be really clear to every single listener, All of your 120 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.000 local property tax stays local. The state makes the laws 121 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.839 that affect those taxes, but all of the taxes you 122 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:26.959 pay stay local. None of it goes to the state 123 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:31.399 when it's your property tax. So we need to remember 124 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.360 that we have to address the local spending. You had 125 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:37.720 mentioned early earlier, Brian that you'd be okay with paying 126 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:43.839 some maybe an increased sales tax, and. 127 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.040 That way everybody participates. 128 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:48.199 Well, and that is something that I've heard from my constituents. 129 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.959 They talk about, how, you know, we have a school 130 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:54.199 levy and everybody votes yes on the levee except for 131 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:58.240 maybe some of our elderly who are on a homestead exemption. 132 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.839 They don't want their property taxes to go up, but 133 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.439 everybody votes yes. School levies pass. But here's the thing. 134 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.319 If you don't own property, there's no skin off your teeth. 135 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:07.600 Now. 136 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:11.240 In this way, it will require local governments because there's 137 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:15.120 more coming. We'll talk probably more about this today, but 138 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:21.839 it will require potentially counties to consider an increase in 139 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:26.000 sales tax and also potentially an income tax for the 140 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.399 school systems because there is an opportunity for them to 141 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.319 do that if they so choose, But the people get 142 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:33.399 to vote on that. 143 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:35.839 Fair enough, let's pause, We'll bring Jennifer Gross back. 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Otherwise a mostly cloudy start. 180 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.440 Eighty for the high tomorrow overnight low sixty five. Rain 181 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.600 continues and then Saturday shouldn't get any rain. That are 182 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.639 to be mostly cloudy with a highest seventy seven seventy 183 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:34.080 one degrees. Now, let's see what Chuck has. 184 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.759 On travel from the UCLP Traffic Center. 185 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.480 Millions of Americans are living with Alzheimer's and other dimensions. 186 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.919 Find answers from leading brain health experts that you see 187 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:44.879 help learn more. 188 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.120 You see health dot com. Rex are clear. 189 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.279 He spend two seventy five at Winton and Moss Stellar 190 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.120 northbound seventy five, continued slow buttermilk into the cut and 191 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.679 from above seventy four into Lachland. That's a fifteen minute 192 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:01.759 to lay alone southbound seventy five, quite through Blackman as well. 193 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.759 Chuck Ingram on fifty five krs the talk. 194 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:10.159 Station seven if you have krc DE talk station bry Thomas, 195 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.320 Jennifer Gross, State Representative Gross and District forty five talking 196 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:19.320 property taxes. Welcome, refreshing a dose of information here. We 197 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:23.000 have local tax commissions and how do they factor into 198 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:26.759 this property tax equation? Is your mic on? I don't 199 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.399 know you are now it is it on? So well? 200 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.080 The local and I'm not an expert in all things 201 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.600 all things, but there's a local tax commission at every 202 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:39.679 county and they have the ability to work within your 203 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.679 sales tax and raise revenue that way. So Representative Thomas 204 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.879 and others have been trying to go around the state 205 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:51.200 and say, hey, you can take a little prop you 206 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.559 can take a little pressure off of your homeowners by 207 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.559 working within sales tax. But commissioners don't typically want to 208 00:10:57.919 --> 00:10:59.480 raise taxes, right, No. 209 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:04.559 Let's this for a stadium. Yeah, I get that in there. 210 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:08.840 Because you're from Cincinnati. I'm in Butler County. We don't 211 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:10.519 have to worry about some of that. I don't take 212 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.519 county issues, but but yeah, so, so they can be 213 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.240 working on sales tax and that that gives buy into 214 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.240 everybody in the county and it increases revenues so that 215 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:25.679 it can take pressure off the homeowner. And that commission 216 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.759 usually consists of three people and I don't quote me 217 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:32.559 on this everybody, but I believe it's a commissioner, the prosecutor, 218 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.879 and the auditor maybe those three. 219 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:40.120 So yeah, so we we have some possible relief in sight. 220 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.039 I mean, do you have any idea what this might 221 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.960 translate into in terms if this bill passes or this 222 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:49.399 Property Tax Relief Bill Act and all that's involved with it, 223 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.559 the you just sort of boilt down, that's right, what 224 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.159 that might translate into in terms of reduction in tax 225 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:56.039 and property taxes. 226 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.480 The average homeowner in Ohio should see eight hundred and 227 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:04.639 fifty removed from their property tax. It provides approximately three 228 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:09.200 point five billion in direct property tax relief to Ohioans immediately. 229 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.679 Well, that's going to be welcome, welcome, yep. 230 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.120 It prevents spikes and unvoted property tax I mean, there's 231 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.759 multiple bills. I can rattle them off, maybe we'll talk 232 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:20.360 about them in this hour, but it aims to keep 233 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:25.159 taxes and revenues low. It empowers local government to provide 234 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:29.159 direct relief to thehi is most vulnerable through a local 235 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:33.559 homestead exemption match that they can add to the state exemption. 236 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:40.320 And it empowers voters to eliminate most unvoted, unvoted taxes 237 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:43.399 for local governments. And it reduces the over reliance on 238 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.159 property tax, which, as you stated earlier, was determined to 239 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:51.840 be unlawful. And yeah, and we need we need to 240 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.279 address that right now. Well, that's the Supreme Court case 241 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.000 that I was mentioning earlier. This our school funding mechanism 242 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.440 has been deemed unconstitutional the last twenty years. And yet 243 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:05.000 it's like people complained about Donald Trump defying the courts, 244 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.279 and you're going, oh, he's defying the courts. 245 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:10.200 This is the downfall democracy. Well, we as a state 246 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.080 have been defying our own Supreme Court now for two decades. 247 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:13.600 True. 248 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.360 True, a lot of people level. 249 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.759 We also have the death penalty in Ohio, but we've 250 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:23.159 had no people that have had to pay for that 251 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:25.320 so during the wine years. 252 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.519 So I'm not a fan of the death penalty because 253 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.240 I don't believe in the state's ability to take a 254 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:33.279 life away because you know what, sometimes they screw up. True, 255 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.799 that's my only reason for not I know there's some 256 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.600 terrible people out there that I would love to see 257 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:39.799 struck down by God in a bolt of lightning, or 258 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:42.480 run over by a truck, or die in some horrific 259 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:46.000 meat grinder incident because they committed a horrific crime. But 260 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.320 we know of a lot of cases where their death 261 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:53.600 penalty has been overturned because somebody lied, witnesses were lying, 262 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.200 prosecutors were lying, police didn't do their job right, and 263 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.320 then you can't the state shouldn't be able to take 264 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:00.200 a life. I don't want to go down. 265 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.759 That's another example lot of us not following some of 266 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:04.679 the laws of the land. 267 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:06.600 So but I hear you on that. 268 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.080 All right, let's continue with Jennifer will ultimately get to 269 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.120 medicaid and more on the budget. But this is sort 270 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.440 of all within the budget, and she will be talking 271 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:18.399 about these six hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns Complex. 272 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.399 I will ask her about that. Assume you shouldn't bring 273 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.240 it up beforehand. It's going to happen. Stick around, folks 274 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.039 right back. Zimmer Heating and air Conditioning, those are the 275 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.600 folks to call. They do great work Zimmer does. 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John Nan tell us the following story about 301 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.919 the weather. We got rain and showers in waves and 302 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.600 then also maybe some storms. Eighty for the high today, overnight, 303 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:46.320 cloudy in sixty seven, no rain. Rain starts in the 304 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.120 evening Tomorrow. We'll have a cloudy day up until Ben 305 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.679 and we get some showers and some storms developing. Eighty 306 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.279 for the high range fteen US overnight with storms expected 307 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:57.639 fit sixty five. The overnight low and highest seventy seven 308 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.960 on Saturday, with mostly floudy skies seventy one right now. 309 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:01.840 Traffic time from. 310 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:02.919 The ucup Trampic Center. 311 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.639 Millions of Americans are living with Alzheimer's and other dementias. 312 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:10.080 Find answers from leaving brain health experts. Hey, you see 313 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.799 help learn more at you see help dot com. Rex 314 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.559 are clear. He spend two seventy five at Winton and 315 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.039 Moss Stellar North Pound seventy five continued slow but a 316 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:21.679 milk into the cut and from above seventy. 317 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.639 Four into Lachlan. That's a fifteen minute to lay alone. 318 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.840 South Pound seventy five break flights through Blochman as well. 319 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.320 Chuck Ingram on fifty five kr see the talk station. 320 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.279 Five to fifty one, fifty five krsit talk station. I'm 321 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.200 sorry seven to fifty one here, I'm looking at the 322 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.799 five in fifty on my account or my clock here, 323 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:43.039 I'm distracting you are distracting me, Jennifer Gross is a 324 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:48.279 distraction in studio, but a welcome distraction anyhow, Jennifer from 325 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.279 District forty five. We took breaking things down, so we 326 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.320 really did a good job of the property tax thing. 327 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.960 Let's start. We'll just do the tip of the iceberg 328 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.000 in this segment as we introduce a you know, more 329 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.639 far reaching conversation on issues related to Medicaid. Now, when 330 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:06.440 I talked to Jack Windsor about this, he was looking 331 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.359 at that one segment of the Medicaid population, the blind, disabled, 332 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.440 and is it elderly. Yeah, okay, the ones that most needed. 333 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:17.519 Yes, the ones that I walled off as a chair 334 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.720 and didn't even touch because I thought, I mean, how 335 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.000 do I go back to your listeners and the people 336 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.920 and say, well, we're going to cut the age, blind 337 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:27.519 and disabled off Medicaid. 338 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:29.480 You'd have my head on a platter, right. 339 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.279 Yeah. I mean, theoretically, if anybody's going to be deserving 340 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.680 of some assistance, it'll be them, Yes, But if they've 341 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.519 got a lot of money, then they don't need to 342 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.920 be in a public assistance program. That's where the public 343 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:44.400 assistance programs comes from, or the need comes from. Duh. 344 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:47.400 Then I'm not man explaining, but I'm just so disturbed 345 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:53.240 by what our state's third party vendor, a company contracted 346 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.359 out to do this kind of work, and that's Lexus Nexus. They, 347 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:59.400 according to Jack Windsor, and by all accounts, have access 348 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.000 to eighty five five percent of every everybody in the 349 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.839 country's bank accounts. They took looked at one slice. I 350 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:07.599 think it was twenty five percent of. 351 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:12.920 This fifty six percent and found twenty nine percent that's outside. 352 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:15.920 So they look at a little over half of the entire blind, 353 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.400 disabled elderly community and determined that twenty three percent of 354 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.519 them have more income, they are not qualified to be 355 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.759 in the program. And so he goes back to the 356 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:29.359 high Department of Medicaid and like, what's the deal here, 357 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.359 and they gave him some long winded, wordy goofy response 358 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.400 he's published it today but which basically said nothing. And 359 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:40.039 my question to him is like, wait a second. They're 360 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.640 are vendor. We trust them with the information. They're who 361 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:44.839 we rely on to determine eligibility. In the first place, 362 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.400 they determined they aren't eligible, why not send them a 363 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:48.920 letter and see you're kicked out of the program. And 364 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:50.279 if they said were like, what, well, I don't have 365 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:51.680 that kind of money, they can come back and try 366 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:53.519 to present evidence that it's not their money or they 367 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.480 don't have it, or Lexus Nexus was wrong. That's this 368 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.559 simple solution that would result in billions of dollars in savings. 369 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:01.599 What the hell? 370 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:06.279 Yes, and let's pull that out. Four thousand Ohio Medicaid 371 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:10.079 beneficial areas were found to be holding one hundred thousand 372 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:15.640 to nine hundred nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred 373 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.960 and ninety nine in assets, and twelve people had over 374 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.279 a million dollars and they were on Medicaid. Let's break 375 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:27.920 that down for that population, they're getting in benefits two thousand, 376 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.319 four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month. So the 377 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.359 taxpayer is on the hook for those four thousand people 378 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.839 who do not qualify or twenty nine percent at two thousand, 379 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.720 four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month times twelve 380 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:43.640 times every year they were on You can do the math. 381 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:47.440 That's where the billions of waste is coming from. 382 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.039 That would address a lot of claimed budget shortfalls. 383 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.839 In their legs and property tax. I mean, like we 384 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:56.160 should be moving now. We need to be clear the 385 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.599 federal government matches. We pay thirty five cents every dollar. 386 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.720 The federal government would call it a pool down. I 387 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.599 do not like it. Ohio is thirty to thirty five 388 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:08.400 percent dependent on the federal government, and we could talk 389 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:09.359 about this in the budget. 390 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:12.279 That's our neighbors in every other state, the taxpayers that 391 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:14.599 I mean, I don't care. It's federal government money. That's 392 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:17.039 our money. I don't want people in Kentucky for paying 393 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.680 for our fraud, waist and abuse. I mean, that's what 394 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:21.920 pisses me off so much. I just see I'm getting 395 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.319 unhinged here, Jennifer, right. I mean, it's always well, the 396 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:27.440 federal government's gonna pay. Well, you know, you go ahead 397 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:29.799 and expand medicating your state because the federal government's gonna 398 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:33.960 cover ninety percent of the expansion. Damn it, that's taxpayer dollars. 399 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:38.400 There's the federal government we are. That's right, that's right. 400 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:40.720 People forget We're gonna draw that down. 401 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.319