Experts say the Marion County public health agency's request would take the 'entitlement' out of entitlement programs like Medicaid.
to strip legal protections for millions of Americans in a monumental case that experts say could dramatically weaken federal benefit programs.wants the nation's high court to throw out a lawsuit over poor care at one of its nursing homes in a case that could also bar beneficiaries of safety net programs like Medicaid from suing if their rights are violated.
The Democrat-led agency has found an ally in Indiana’s Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita. Rokita’s office submitted aearlier this year pleading for SCOTUS to side with Marion County’s public health agency, and even asked the justices to be allowed to participate in oral arguments in Washington, D.C. when they take place on Nov. 8.
The law, passed in the wake of the Civil War to protect the rights of Black Americans, gives citizens broad rights to sue when their federal rights are violated. And past U.S. Supreme Court decisions have found that beneficiaries of public assistance programs can rely on the law to sue when benefits are improperly withheld.and children with severe disabilities.
"While some executive, operational, and administrative duties will necessarily have to be delegated to staff, the volitional decision and act of pursuing further litigation with our country’s highest court is something else altogether," wrote Public Access Counselor Luke Britt, who is appointed by the governor to arbitrate disputes over public access to meetings and records.
Morgan Daly, public policy director for the Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council, filed the open door complaint with the public access counselor. She hopes Health & Hospital's board will hold a public vote on the issue.
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