Editing Rob Portman (section)

===Health care===
Portman has worked to repeal and replace the [[Affordable Care Act]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shesgreen |first1=Deirdre |title=Rob Portman's dilemma: How to repeal Obamacare without undermining opioid fight |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/09/rob-portmans-dilemma-how-repeal-obamacare-without-undermining-opioid-fight/102563348/ |access-date=December 30, 2020 |work=[[USA Today]] |date=June 9, 2017}}</ref> In 2017, he voted to repeal it.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Parlapiano|first=Alicia|title=How Each Senator Voted on Obamacare Repeal Proposals|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 25, 2017 |language=en|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/us/politics/senate-votes-repeal-obamacare.html|access-date=July 23, 2018}}</ref> He opposed steep cuts to [[Medicaid]] because the expansion of the program had allowed some Ohioans to gain coverage, including some impacted by Ohio's [[Opioid epidemic|opioid crisis]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/334834-gop-senators-bristle-at-trumps-medicaid-cuts/|title=GOP senators bristle at Trump's Medicaid cuts|last1=Hellmann|first1=Jessie|date=May 23, 2017|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=June 12, 2017|last2=Weixel|first2=Nathaniel}}</ref> As a member of a group of 13 Republican senators tasked with writing a [[2017 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act replacement proposals#Senate legislation|Senate version]] of the AHCA,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pear |first1=Robert |title=13 Men, and No Women, Are Writing New G.O.P. Health Bill in Senate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/us/politics/women-health-care-senate.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 8, 2017 }}</ref> he supported proposed cuts to Medicaid that would be phased in over seven years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/336814-key-gop-centrists-open-to-ending-medicaid-expansion/|title=Key GOP centrists open to ending Medicaid expansion|last1=Boubein|first1=Rachel|date=June 7, 2017|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=June 12, 2017|last2=Sullivan|first2=Peter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170609/portman-wants-phaseout-of-medicaid-expansion-funds-kasich-has-backed-in-past|title=Portman wants phaseout of Medicaid-expansion funds; Kasich has backed in past|last=Torry|first=Jack|date=June 10, 2017|work=The Columbus Dispatch|access-date=June 12, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
[[File:DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Tours CHS Trail House.jpg|thumb|Portman and Homeland Security Secretary [[Alejandro Mayorkas]] tour the CHS Trail House, an [[Office of Refugee Resettlement]] facility that provides care for children before they are placed with a family member or sponsor.]]