The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate imposed under President Obama's health-care reform bill. Relatively little public attention, however, has been paid to the Court's surprising determination that the bill's vast expansion of the Medicaid program violated the Constitution. Yet its decision on this front will touch the lives of millions of people. Nicholas Bagley, J.D., Assistant Professor of Law, U-M, will discuss what the Supreme Court's decision means for Medicaid going forward.

This is the 5th of 6 lectures in the series, “The Supreme Court: Impact of Current Decisions on Our Society.”