With Congress on the verge of deciding on a federal budget bill that currently allows for close to $1 trillion in cuts to federal Medicaid spending, Northeast Ohio leaders are bracing for local impacts.
The proposed cuts to Medicaid would “devastate” MetroHealth and clinics that help low-income residents, said union members and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne at a news conference at Cleveland’s Willard Park on Tuesday.
Ronayne said if Congress and President Donald Trump cut Medicaid funding to states at the rate currently proposed, Ohio’s trigger law will immediately kick about 100,000 county residents off of their Medicaid health insurance…