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Ontonagon County adopts resolution urging Congress, White House to oppose proposed Medicaid cuts
Summary
The board unanimously adopted Resolution 2025-04 calling on federal lawmakers and the president to reject proposed Medicaid reductions, citing a statewide behavioral health funding crisis and loss of beneficiaries since the Public Health Emergency.
The Ontonagon County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously June 17 to adopt Resolution 2025-04, urging Congress and the President to oppose proposed cuts to Medicaid that the resolution says would harm Michigan's public behavioral health system.
The motion to adopt the resolution was offered by Commissioner Nousiainen and supported by Commissioner Bourdeau; the vote was 5-0. Marlene Broemer spoke during public comment to express support for the board’s action.
The resolution states that Michigan’s public mental health system faces "a serious and escalating funding crisis," attributing the strain to factors including loss of Medicaid-covered lives, inflationary pressures and rising demand for services. It says the state has "lost nearly 700,000 Medicaid beneficiaries since the end of the Public Health Emergency," that core behavioral health funding has been flat and that medical inflation has increased by more than 10 percent. The board’s resolution says proposed federal changes such as block grants, per-capita caps or reductions to Medicaid expansion would shift costs to the state and local providers and could shrink access to care.
The resolution calls on federal officials to "fully allocate Medicaid behavioral health funds to the State of Michigan in fiscal year 2025 and beyond" and to forego proposals that would reduce the federal share of Medicaid spending. The board directed that copies be transmitted to local and state members of Congress and to the Michigan Association of Counties.
The resolution text expresses the board’s policy position; it does not itself create county-level changes to benefits or funding. No roll call dissent or amendment to the resolution was recorded.
