Doctors, health officials say Medicaid cuts would threaten Michigan’s health and its economy

LANSING, MI — The Republican proposal to cut potentially hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid is a “direct threat to the health and dignity of our patients, our neighbors and our communities,” said Rob Davidson.

The west Michigan emergency room doctor and the executive director of a patient advocacy organization called the Committee to Preserve Health Care was flanked by two Democratic lawmakers and a dozen other physicians, most of them holding signs that said, “Don’t Musk Up Medicaid.”