SCOTUS holds patients & providers CANNOT challenge a state's decision to ban Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program

[In It to Win It]

Mark Joseph Stern
‪@mjsdc.bsky.social‬

🚨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.

The Court rules 6-3 that Medicaid doesn't give individuals an unambiguous right to challenge this type of decision.

— Garnet Henderson (@garnethenderson.com) 2025-06-26T14:12:55.862Z

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.

Predictably, the Republicans say no.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

— ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:11:57.357Z

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)

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

— Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:08:42.513Z

Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS decision is in Medina v. Planned Parenthood.

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:

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T14:09:39.747Z

[Lonestarblue]

1. Presumably this ruling will allow every red state to kick out any healthcare provider for religious reasons.

Any medical group that has ever provided abortion services will be fair game. In many red states like Texas, these medical organizations are the only groups providing medical care for poor people who are either using Medicaid or have no health insurance at all. In some rural areas, women’s healthcare groups are the only medical facilities within hundreds of miles.

The intended outcome will be for poor women to lack access to pregnancy screening and prenatal vitamins, cancer screenings, diabetes checkups, heart disease, and other diseases that will be left untreated and cause more early deaths. A la Joni Ernst, the new Republican motto is “We’re all going yo die. We’re just helping you do it sooner.”

[Lovie777]

2. So women on Medicaid cannot....

Choose or request a health provider because the state now can control the women’s decisions.

I’m so glad I live in a blue state.

[bluestarone]

3. Surprise surprise!

FUCKERS!!