CLEVELAND, Ohio — Mayor Justin Bibb predicted in a recent Politico interview that MetroHealth System could “go out of business” if the federal government cuts Medicaid funding to hospitals.
“Cleveland is home to our only safety net hospital, Metro Hospital (sic), and they could go out of business if these cuts go through,” Bibb said in the interview.
MetroHealth declined to comment on Bibb’s dire prediction about its future. The medical system said it would wait to weigh in until it sees the impact of the Medicaid cuts, according to Rita Andolsen, vice president communications and media relations…