Donald Pearce
210 posts


Absolutely appreciate the NO vote in its current form. No doubt that reform and oversight needs to happen, and quickly, but removing the ability of family members to be caregivers is not the answer. The home health care, medical transport loopholes need closed, and those prosecuted that manipulated the system. The problem has never been parents of DD children or adults providing care and services to their children.
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For the last 1.5 years, the Ohio House Medicaid Committee has been working to protect the taxpayer while serving our most vulnerable citizens. As a member of this committee, I can attest that especially over the past few weeks, both sides of the aisle have been working together to honestly find policies to eliminate fraud, waste, & abuse.
Last week, Speaker Huffman added three members of leadership to the Medicaid Committee. These three have taken over the process from the chair, and yesterday they presented a 177-page substitute bill that had been released just a few hours before committee began. This was an ambush! Turns out, the details of this sub bill has provisions in it that totally blow up Medicaid in Ohio and will have the exact opposite effect of what we have been working towards.
Last General Assembly we had a rule that required all amendments and sub bills to be available by midnight the day before adopted (The Cinderella Rule). This rule gave some time for amendments to be read; however, this rule was eliminated in this GA. The result has been that time and time again, members have been forced to take votes before seeing the bill, and then only later getting the details. Yesterday, leadership hid the ball again, and in doing so, left the original members of the committee who weren’t part of crafting the sub bill holding the bag.
This is the latest example of the style of leadership the Ohio House is under.—do what we say or else. Believe me, I know firsthand!
And most unfortunately, this trick yesterday probably wasted an opportunity to truly protect the taxpayer. We were on a path to make major and positive reforms to Medicaid in Ohio to weed out Fraud, Waste, and Abuse; however, now with this sub bill and the way it was handled, how can we trust what we are being told by leadership?
Simply put, we cannot.
Oh, and to be clear, I’m a “No” on this SubBill.
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Tim Walz might have just landed himself in prison.
He just got exposed for RESTARTING taxpayer payments to Somali fraudsters tied to ‘Feeding Our Future’
This is so damning…
Jim Jordan: “Why didn’t you tell the truth about why you restarted the payments?”
WALZ: “The agency believed the court required them to make those payments.”
JORDAN: “That was false. The court says the judge never ordered you to resume Feeding Our Future payments. So the court’s lying?!”
WALZ: “I can’t tell you!”
JORDAN: “Somebody’s lying! Either you’re lying or the court’s lying. Which one?”
WALZ: “I just know what the attorneys said.”
JORDAN: “Are you hiding behind the court? Is this about politics?!”
Insane @Jim_Jordan
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🥹🏆🏌️♂️ #EMOTIONAL MOMENT — Justin Thomas gets emotional reflecting on his first win in over 1000 days.
“When it’s hard it’s really really hard, I’ve worked my butt off..” @JTLegion_
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@TWlegion Awesome!! This is why he wanted to play this weekend. Can’t buy memories like this. Congratulations Charlie
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@dallascowboys Hard to watch today. Fan for 40 years, but never been more disappointed than this year. Time to fire some coaches and assistants.
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@dallascowboys @pepsi Fan for 40 years and this is as disappointing as I’ve ever been.
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@ClaireBLang @RichmondRaceway Well, although it may be unpopular, I don’t see the need for a penalty anywhere other than pit road. Take away the bump and run…things get boring. NASCAR can’t afford to lose more fans.
The #11 crash, that was as much Denny’s fault as Austin’s.
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No decision today on @RichmondRaceway penalties. Will be on standby for tomorrow!
Usually means decision was hard or team had to be notified...or just a dang long day discussing. Sometimes penalties come out Tues. Sometimes Wed. ;) No rhyme or reason..Thoughts?
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@Kirsty_H220 The love shown by siblings to our autistic children is unbelievable. And usually not noticed by others, ❤️❤️
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