The other important issue before the Supreme Court: Medicaid Expansion

Aaron Carroll

March 27, 2012

I have a post up at the JAMA Forum:

So much attention has been paid to the individual mandate that relatively few have bothered to focus on the other questions that will be debated tomorrow in front of the Supreme Court. One involves the expansion of Medicaid, and it is absolutely worth some time.

I don’t want to minimize the significance of the individual mandate discussion today, but ironically, tomorrow’s Medicaid arguments have consequences that are much more far-reaching. We should pay attention.

Go read my post!

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

The other important issue before the Supreme Court: Medicaid Expansion

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