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2016 Postmortem

NYC Liberal

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8. The Supreme Court struck that part down…sort of.

Reply to Bake (Reply #7)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:46 PM

Jun 2012

They said the federal government cannot completely withdraw existing Medicaid funds, but future money can be tied to participation in the expansion.

A good write-up at oyez.org: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2011/2011_11_400

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