Ramaswamy pledges to make Medicaid fraud a top law enforcement priority from January 2027, with a 10% savings target worth $4.7 billion.
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Ramaswamy says crushing Medicaid fraud can fund lower co-pays and premiums, and proposes simplifying the 10 agencies that administer Medicaid payments.
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Ramaswamy calls for health care price transparency legislation and reopening many closed psychiatric hospitals, and says he has not proposed privatizing hospitals.
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“We will make the prosecution, including the investigation of Medicaid fraud, a top law enforcement priority in the state.”
Ramaswamy pledges the biggest property tax cut in Ohio history, returning the base to pre-pandemic levels with a growth cap, starting in 2027.
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Ramaswamy wants Ohio to phase out the income tax, paid for by cutting waste and fraud and by growth, and argues Acton would double it.
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Ramaswamy says the property tax rollback will not hurt local police, fire or schools, and pledges lower electric bills and recovered Medicaid fraud.
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“That will represent the biggest property tax cut the state of Ohio has ever seenin our history.”
Ramaswamy wants to bring high-paying jobs to Ohio by lowering the income tax and cutting red tape on starter homes, so young people stay.
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Ramaswamy proposes helping farmers by attracting dairy processors and ethanol demand, preserving CAUV and cutting farm property taxes.
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Ramaswamy opposes special favors for any one category of economic development and argues benefits without work requirements shrink the pie.
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“And we're going to turn that ship around by bringing high-paying jobs back to Ohio. That means taking the income tax burden down.”
Ramaswamy proposes bail and sentencing reform so repeat violent offenders, including those aged 16 or 17, are punished rather than released.
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Ramaswamy opposes stripping qualified immunity from police and proposes tying state funding for cities to law and order standards.
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Ramaswamy says the death penalty should be kept only for the most heinous crimes with absolute certainty.
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“We need bail reform. We need sentencing reform to say that if you're a repeat violent offender, you should be punished, not back out on the street.”
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Ramaswamy says Ohio's governor should press Washington for the state's share of federal dollars, as Texas and Florida do.
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Ramaswamy proposes a federal deal letting Ohio keep at least two-thirds of Medicaid fraud savings, up from less than 35 cents per dollar.
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Ramaswamy says he has held preliminary talks with HHS and CMS and that Ohio will be ready to act in January.
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“They're actually pretty good at getting the federal government to at least listen to them and occasionally do what they want to do”
Acton pledges day-one action on wage theft and on how the state sets up project labor agreements.
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Acton argues Ramaswamy is deeply invested in data centers.
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“And there's a lot I can do walking in on day one on wage theft on the way we set up the agreements and project labor agreements that we do and purchase as the governor.”
Ramaswamy pledges a day-one order halting new data center announcements until a law requires lower power bills and no tax abatements.
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Ramaswamy says data centers should give nearby residents free electricity and be built on industrial sites with cleaner water.
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“I will sign an executive order that halts any further data centerproject announcements in the state of Ohio unless and until we have passed ourlegislation.”
“I think we need to expand to all districts. You don't know always what every family is going through and and there is no district where there aren't kids in need.”
Ramaswamy says he is a businessman, not a bureaucrat, who developed six FDA-approved medicines and built Roivant into a major company.
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Ramaswamy says his parents immigrated legally from India with nothing, and that Ohio needs a new generation of leadership.
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Ramaswamy argues Acton's record as health director infringed on Ohioans' freedoms and says she lacks the qualifications for governor.
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“I have developed now six different medicines that are FDAapproved against all odds saving lives of patients.”