Supreme Court Upholds PPACA’s Individual Mandate, Alters Medicaid Provision—Mintz Levin’s Thomas Crane

In one of the biggest Supreme Court decisions in years, the justices ruled 5-4 in upholding the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Along with the ultra-controversial decision on the individual mandate, the court also upheld the certain Medicaid provisions presented in the Act, though altering them slightly. To explain just how and why the justices voted the way they did, what’s next for Obamacare and what happened with the Medicaid provision, we bring in Thomas Crane, attorney See more +

In one of the biggest Supreme Court decisions in years, the justices ruled 5-4 in upholding the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Along with the ultra-controversial decision on the individual mandate, the court also upheld the certain Medicaid provisions presented in the Act, though altering them slightly. To explain just how and why the justices voted the way they did, what’s next for Obamacare and what happened with the Medicaid provision, we bring in Thomas Crane, attorney with Mintz Levin and author on their blog, Health Law & Policy Matters.

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