Matt Bevin loses another Medicaid waiver lawsuit. This time, it’s one he filed in Frankfort
The lawsuit was the reverse of a suit the same 16 people successfully brought against Bevin's Medicaid changes in a federal court in
Bevin already chose to participate as a defendant in the
"Not all disputes are capable of federal judicial review,"
In the
Sixteen Kentucky Medicaid recipients sued the federal government in January to block Bevin's planned changes to Medicaid. The plaintiffs claimed that Bevin's plan -- known as Kentucky HEALTH -- should not have been approved; they said it violated the 1965 law establishing Medicaid because poor people's access to health care would be reduced.
After the Medicaid recipients sued the federal government to block the waiver that it had granted to Bevin's
Bevin has said that if he loses in court and cannot prevail on appeal, he will end expanded Medicaid in
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