Chapter 8.A.3: Medicaid

To insert after Ch. 8.A.3 (p. 756):

The intricate structure of federal and state roles in the ACA — not just under Medicaid, but also regarding the regulation of private health insurance — raises a host of federalism issues that scholars will debate for years to come. For a start, see Abbe Gluck, Intrastatutory Federalism and Statutory Interpretation: State Implementation of Federal Law in Health Reform and Beyond, 121 Yale L. J. 534, 582 (2011); I. Glenn Cohen, Conscientious Objection, Coercion, the Affordable Care Act, and U.S. States, 20 Ethical Perspectives 163 (2013); David K. Jones, Lavatories of Democracy? Health Reform and Federalism in the Trump Era, 95 Milbank Q. 470 (2017); Elizabeth McCuskey, Agency Imprimatur & Health Reform Preemption, 89 Ohio St. L. J. (2017); Nicole Huberfeld et al., Plunging into Endless Difficulties: Medicaid and Coercion in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 93 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (2013); Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, Rhetorical Federalism: The Value of State-Based Dissent to Federal Health Reform, 39 Hofstra L. Rev. 111 (2010); Abigail Moncrieff, Cost-Benefit Federalism: Reconciling Collective Action Federalism and Libertarian Federalism in the Obamacare Litigation and Beyond, 37 Am. J. L. & Med. 288 (2012).

For further discussion of Armstrong, see Henry Paul Monaghan, A Cause of Action, Anyone?, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1807 (2016); Jane Perkins, Pin the Tail on the Donkey: Beneficiary Enforcement of the Medicaid Act Over Time, 9 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y 207 (2016); Private Rights of Action — Equitable Remedies to Enforce the Medicaid Act — Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc., 129 Harv. L. Rev. 211 (2015). 

For discussions on the occasion of Medicaid’s 50th birthday, Sara Rosenbaum, Medicaid at 50, in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law (2017); Symposium, The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at 50, 15 Yale J. of Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 1 (2015); Symposium, The ABCs (Accessibility, Barriers, and Challenges) of Medicaid Expansion. 9 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y 179-296 (2016); Commonwealth Fund, Medicare at 50 Years (2015); Symposium, Medicare and Medicaid at 50, 31 JAMA 311 (2015).

For a recent symposium on the challenges faced by Medicaid in the 21st century, see Symposium: The Struggle for the Soul of Medicaid, 13 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y 5 (2019); see also Ann G. Taylor & James E. Shmerling. What Is Medicaid and How Can/Should It Be Used to Improve The Health Of Our Nation’s Children?, 22 Quinnipiac Health L.J. 405 (2019).