SCOTUS holds patients & providers CANNOT challenge a state's decision to ban Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program [View all]
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🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1275_e2pg.pdf
Gorsuch's opinion for the court holds that Medicaid does not confer a right to patients to choose their health care provider, meaning states can "defund" a provider—here, Planned Parenthood—by refusing to cover care there under its Medicaid program. This will be devastating to Planned Parenthood.
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:09:04.375Z
Gorsuch's opinion for the court holds that Medicaid does not confer a right to patients to choose their health care provider, meaning states can "defund" a provider—here, Planned Parenthood—by refusing to cover care there under its Medicaid program. This will be devastating to Planned Parenthood.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:10:21.909Z
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled in Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the case stemming from South Carolina's attempt to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid.
— Garnet Henderson (@garnethenderson.com) 2025-06-26T14:12:55.862Z
The Court rules 6-3 that Medicaid doesn't give individuals an unambiguous right to challenge this type of decision.
Second case is a big one. Medina v. Planned Parenthood. 6-3, usual partisan lines. Case was about whether citizens could sue South Carolina over its decision to kick PP off of Medicaid.
— ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:11:57.357Z
Predictably, the Republicans say no.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
UGH - Gorsuch has Medina; SCOTUS holds that patients & providers CANNOT challenge a state's decision to ban Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program ("defund Planned Parenthood" efforts)
— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:08:42.513Z
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS decision is in Medina v. Planned Parenthood.
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:09:39.747Z
For a 6-3 majority (w/ the three Democratic appointees in dissent), Justice Gorsuch holds that private plaintiffs (including Planned Parenthood) can't enforce the "any qualified provider" provision in the Medicaid statute:
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