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A Fatal Flaw as Trump Tries to Remake Health Care: Shortcuts

The following article by Robert Pear was posted on the New York Times website July 7, 2018:

A Planned Parenthood clinic in Arizona. While the Trump administration has suffered a series of court setbacks on health care, that does not mean its efforts have reached a dead end. On the hot-button topic of Planned Parenthood, the lower courts are divided. Credit: Laura Segall, Agence France-Presse, Getty Images

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is on a losing streak in court cases challenging its efforts to abruptly change health care policy, but the naming of a new Supreme Court justice could alter the trajectory on some of the most controversial cases, from funding Planned Parenthood to mandating contraceptive coverage.

The cases that the administration has lost have had a common theme: Federal judges have found that the administration cut corners in trying to advance its political priorities.

Most recently, a federal district judge said the administration had acted unlawfully in approving work requirements for the state Medicaid program in Kentucky.

View the complete post on the New York Times website here.

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