FAQ

Vivek Ramaswamy’s tax proposal aims to make Ohio an income-tax-free state over a 10-year period. The first step includes repealing the state capital gains tax and providing targeted property tax relief to protect homeowners and seniors from rising property assessments.

Vivek Ramaswamy plans to lower household electric bills by expanding Ohio’s natural gas production, streamlining state energy project permits, and removing unnecessary regulations that delay power construction. Increasing the domestic energy supply stabilizes grid reliability and reduces energy costs for families and businesses.

Vivek Ramaswamy is running for Governor of Ohio in the November 2026 general election. His candidate platform focuses on state income and property tax relief, lowering energy costs, improving educational standards, and eliminating state spending waste.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s main state priorities include delivering property tax relief, lowering energy utility bills, supporting law enforcement to reduce crime, expanding educational opportunities, and reforming Medicaid to eliminate fraud while protecting healthcare access.

Vivek Ramaswamy is the Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio in 2026, facing Democratic nominee Amy Acton in the general election.

Vivek’s healthcare plan is supported by official policy releases from the Vivek for Ohio campaign, comparative state data from Tennessee’s CMS-approved shared-savings waiver model, and joint enforcement endorsements with state legislative leaders including Ohio Senate President Rob McColley and House Speaker Matt Huffman. Third-party analysis from state news bureaus and reporting on federal Medicaid audit data further document the scope of the proposed administrative reforms.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s affordability plan helps small businesses by reducing regulatory permitting delay and cutting through bureaucratic red tape. These reforms reduce overhead expenses for local employers and incentivize new business investment across the state. Vivek is also endorsed by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, the largest network of businesses in the state.

No, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Medicaid plan does not cut eligible, vulnerable Ohioans off care; it specifically targets criminal fraudsters, phantom providers, and administrative billing waste. By eliminating unverified claims and fraudulent organizations, the plan preserves vital medical resources and safeguards healthcare access for the nearly 3 million Ohioans who legitimately rely on the Medicaid safety net.

Vivek Ramaswamy approaches healthcare as a business entrepreneur focused on curbing market waste and cracking down on Medicaid fraud, whereas Dr. Amy Acton approaches healthcare as a physician, public health professor, and former Director of the Ohio Department of Health. While Acton’s platform focuses on public health programs, medical debt cancellation, and hospital price transparency, Ramaswamy focuses on administrative restructuring, work requirements for able-bodied adults, and using anti-fraud savings to lower consumer health premiums.

Vivek’s healthcare plan reduces fraud by securing a federal CMS waiver that lets Ohio keep 65 percent of recovered fraud dollars, consolidating state administrative oversight, and installing front-end biometric and electronic visit verification safeguards. Restructuring the federal shared-savings incentive rewards state enforcement, while centralizing payment processing across state agencies stops fraudulent billing networks before taxpayer funds go out the door.