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From 18 to 21. you can see the nexus there, right? because of drunk driving on the highways and so on and so forth. the way in which chief justice roberts actually for a seven-member majority of the court in the case last june distinguished that case by saying that was encouragement that was 10% of the highway funds. whereas, this is a much bigger proportion of state budgets. got you. not just a highway budget but the entire state budget is based goes to medicaid. about 50% that of is being given by the federal government. he says this is not encouragement. this is a gun to the head. yeah. i would just say that the states that now say no, we re not going to accept the medicaid expansion, that doesn t mean they say no forever. not just because it s good for poor people. they may not care about them in particular. but the hospitals want it. yeah. exactly. the hospitals are losing ....

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