Hospital groups file amicus brief supporting ACA Medicaid expansion

AHA and five other national hospital organizations today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's expansion of the Medicaid program and reject the argument of FL and other states that it is unlawfully "coercive." If "petitioners coercion theory were law, Congress could not make any modifications to the Medicaid program or to any other significant cooperative federal-state program - unless every participating.