After Republicans gutted Medicaid at Trump’s behest, rural Michiganders are at risk of losing the hospitals they rely on for regular and emergent care 

LANSING - In case you missed it, Trump and Republicans’ budget bill is endangering the health of thousands of Michiganders as rural hospitals are at risk of closing without Medicaid funding. Across the state, thousands of patients would lose access to the doctors, nurses, and clinics that they rely on for pediatric care, sick visits, and chronic illnesses.

In just a few weeks of these Medicaid cuts, McLaren Central Michigan, UM Health-Sparrow Carson, and Ascension Borgess-Lee Hospital are already at high risk of having to shutter their doors. If these facilities close, countless high paying jobs will be gone, devastating local economies at the same time that thousands of families are scrambling to find a new place to get care.  

If it wasn’t already obvious, Republicans at every level are pushing an agenda that is anti-worker, anti-family, and anti-Michigan. 

Check out more about at risk rural hospitals below: 

Michigan Independent: 3 rural Michigan hospitals deemed at risk following Trump’s cuts to Medicaid funding

• Three hospitals in rural Michigan are among hundreds across the country that may now be in jeopardy due to Medicaid cuts included in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers predict…
• In Michigan, Medicaid provides health care coverage to more than 2.5 million low-income residents. Brian Peters, CEO of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association, said in a July 3 statement that the budget reconciliation bill “is disastrous for access to care for Michiganders and the healthcare providers who care for them.”
• “Cuts to funding are cuts to care. Limiting how states can fund their Medicaid programs puts Michigan in an extremely difficult position. If the state can no longer provide the same reimbursement, hospitals will be faced with difficult choices that will include eliminating service lines or even entire facilities…”
• In their analysis, UNC researchers found the Republican health care cuts could put over 300 rural hospitals across the country at risk of closure, conversion to a different type of facility, or service reductions.
• Three of those hospitals are in Michigan: McLaren Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant; UM Health-Sparrow Carson, previously known as Carson City Hospital, in Carson City; and Ascension Borgess-Lee Hospital in Dowagiac… 
• McLaren Health Care in Mount Pleasant…said it is concerned about significant cuts to federal health care spending, which “could have a devastating and disproportionate impact on people’s ability to efficiently access the necessary care they require…”  
• “But we cannot fully do so without the continued support of these programs. For the sustainability of Michigan’s and the nation’s rural health care infrastructure, we appeal to lawmakers to carefully consider the detrimental impact of these cuts and to reconsider them.”