You can’t feel it yet, but she does.
Health & Social Policy
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Supreme Surprise
Health-care reform survives another near-death experience.
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If Texas Doesn’t Expand Medicaid, Two Million Will Be Without Options
Yesterday’s ruling means they’ll have to cross their fingers and hope the state chooses to give them coverage.
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On Medicaid, Republicans Explore New Moral Depths
They’d rather see their own citizens uninsured than see them get coverage from the government.
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Sometimes a Loss Is Just a Loss
Despite some pundits’ quibbles, Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion doesn’t constitute a win for conservatives.
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Roberts’s Solution to a Non-Problem
The Court’s ruling on Medicaid expansion forbids the federal government from doing something it wouldn’t do anyway.
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A Tale of Two Justices
John Roberts joined with the Court’s liberals to uphold the Affordable Care Act—but he left a political weapon in his opinion for Republicans to use in the future.
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Why It’s Still in States’ Interests to Expand Medicaid
Today’s SCOTUS opinion gives states an out if they choose not to extend Medicaid benefits. But they’d still be crazy not to.