Supreme Court justices appeared unsympathetic toward an effort to bar Medicaid beneficiaries from suing for benefits the safety net program promises.
of beneficiaries from going to federal courts if states violate their rights, said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law professor at George Washington University.A decision could also haveSome justices appeared reluctant to overturn longstanding precedent and block such suits.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said it was “odd to suggest that we, as a court, can reinterpret the word law in section 1983 to carve anything out.” Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative Trump appointee, said she could not “see the connecting of the dots” in the argument to disallow the suit.“My chief takeaway was skepticism at every turn regarding the state’s argument about nursing home rights,” says Rosenbaum.
“And much more fundamentally, a seeming unwillingness to engage on the state’s most explosive claim, which was that Medicaid just cannot be enforced through 1983.”
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