Kagan: SCOTUS Loan Forgiveness Ruling Could Impact Medicare

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg, Michelle M. Stein / July 7, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan raised concerns about the future of Medicare in the high court’s decision shooting down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, but health care legal experts are split on how much the high court’s further expansion of the major questions doctrine in Biden v. Nebraska could change how CMS operates. At issue on the case was the Education secretary’s use of the core provision of a law enacted two decades ago that empowers him...


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