The Supreme Court Is Bad for Your Health
Its decision to let states opt out of the Medicaid expansion turned out to have lethal consequences.
Did Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts kill almost 16,000 people? That is one way, if a hyperbolic one, to read a new study on federalism and Medicaid. Economists looked at the of the Court’s 2012 decision to to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. They found that opt-in states experienced a 9.3 percent reduction in the mortality rate among near-elderly adults of lower
