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25 June 2015

SCOTUS upholds ACA & grumpy old Scalia

Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the King v. Burwell challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Yale law professor Jack Balkin has an interesting, and I think perceptive, analysis of how today’s decision reaffirms the social contract.

The decision leaves intact the mechanism in SB-405 for using expanded Medicaid money in Montana. Hospital administrators and private health insurance executives in Montana probably are turning cartwheels of joy.

Justice Scalia dissented, reaching new lows for snark and sarcasm. He’s colorful, but more and more he’s a grumpy old man who’s losing his mojo. He should retire.