A place to find news updates, legal analysis, and all official documents related to the various constitutional challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010)
Thursday, June 28, 2012
More on Medicaid
The Court apparently held that the expansion is constitutional, but it would be unconstitutional for the Secretary to penalize a state by withholding pre-existing funding (i.e., pre-ACA funding) for the failure to adhere to the new conditions imposed by the ACA.