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Judge halts state plan to use money for social services, fill budget gap
A judge ripped a $250 million hole in the 29-day-old state budget yesterday, ordering the state to keep its hands off a fund designated for anti-smoking programs
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The administration of Gov. Ted Strickland has other plans for the remnants of Ohio's $10 billion share of a 1998 legal settlement with cigarette manufacturers. About half of the $257.6 million remaining in the tobacco fund was earmarked for optional Medicaid services such as vision and dental care; the rest was designated for other social services.
Judge David W. Fais of Franklin County Common Pleas Court wrote that diverting the money from its original purpose would result in a "substantial increase in tobacco-related premature death and disease in Ohio" and a "substantial increase in medical expense for both Ohioans and the state of Ohio for treatment of tobacco-related disease."
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A judge ripped a $250 million hole in the 29-day-old state budget yesterday, ordering the state to keep its hands off a fund designated for anti-smoking programs
.
The administration of Gov. Ted Strickland has other plans for the remnants of Ohio's $10 billion share of a 1998 legal settlement with cigarette manufacturers. About half of the $257.6 million remaining in the tobacco fund was earmarked for optional Medicaid services such as vision and dental care; the rest was designated for other social services.
Judge David W. Fais of Franklin County Common Pleas Court wrote that diverting the money from its original purpose would result in a "substantial increase in tobacco-related premature death and disease in Ohio" and a "substantial increase in medical expense for both Ohioans and the state of Ohio for treatment of tobacco-related disease."
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