Committee looks at taxing Michigan doctors to help avert 12 percent Medicaid cuts

Crain's Detroit Business reports:

Michigan State Rep. Gary McDowell, D-Rudyard, said today that the Michigan House-Senate Conference Committee, which is looking for ways to erase a $2.8 billion budget deficit for fiscal 2010, is considering imposing a 3 percent provider tax on more than 15,000 physicians who practice in the state.