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About Your Project  Doug Kendall: A Viper In the Grass: Could
the Supreme Court Find Medicaid, And Programs Like It,
Unconstitutional?  In the lead-up to next week's historic, six-
hour Supreme Court argument on the constitutionality of the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the press and
commentariat remain focused almost exclusively on the challenge
to the ACA's minimum coverage provision (which requires many
Americans to obtain health care insurance or pay a tax penalty)
and the argument that this provision exceeds Congress' power
under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. Lost in the avalanche
of coverage of that aspect of the case is the fact that the
Court will also be hearing a sweeping attack on the Act's
expansion of the Medicaid program to provide health care for 16
million more low-income Americans. The challengers claim that
the Medicaid expansion is "coercive" to the states and thus an
unconstitutional exercise of Congr