Texas Can’t Block Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Program

A Texas action that could have deprived as many as 12,500 Medicaid patients of their right to obtain health care from their chosen providers has been blocked (Planned Parenthood of Greater Tex. Family Planning & Preventative Health Servs., Inc. v. Smith, 2017 BL 52961, W.D. Tex., No. A-15-CA-1058-SS, 2/21/17).

“A secretly recorded video, fake names, a grand jury indictment, congressional investigations—these are the building blocks of a best-selling novel rather than a case concerning the interplay of federal and state authority through the Medicaid program,” Judge Sam Sparks wrote in ...