At some points during the Supreme Court’s consideration of the health law’s Medicaid expansion, conservative justices not only questioned this provision of the law, but the program itself.
NPR: Medicaid Expansion Caps Supreme Court Arguments The key issue is whether the health law’s expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor unfairly compels the participation of states. Many considered this to be the weakest part of the states’ challenge to the health law, and during Wednesday afternoon’s arguments, that seemed to be the case (Hensley, 3/28).
The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire: A Medicaid Twist In Health-Law Arguments In an interesting turn Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices repeatedly questioned not just the expansion of Medicaid but the basis for the entire program.