The nation’s Medicaid program faces daunting challenges in 2012 not the least of which is a Supreme Court review of whether the Obama administration can require states to accept millions more people onto their Medicaid rolls or lose some of their federal funding.
Recently, I Glenn Cohen of the Harvard Law School and James F. Blumstein of the Vanderbilt Law School evaluated the upcoming high court hearing and whether the states challenging the Affordable Care Act’s mandate have a leg to stand on. Their comments appeared in the January issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The new health care law mandates that state Medicaid plans provide coverage for everyone under the age of 65 with incomes of 133 percent of the federal poverty level and below. To