The Supreme Court has agreed to hear cases challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare and has allotted an apparently unprecedented five and a half hours for oral argument on four separate issues.

At this forum, distinguished constitutional law scholars and health policy researchers will examine what we have learned thus far from the appellate litigation challenging the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

Pending legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are about much more than just the constitutionality of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance.

The American system of federalism is at the heart of many disagreements over important constitutional and public policy issues. Changes in all three branches of government and recent Supreme Court decisions raise questions about the future scope of federal-state relationships: How should we balance state and federal rights? Should the...

TennCare, the state of Tennessee’s Medicaid demonstration project, has been controversial from the start. Established in 1994 under a federal waiver, the program now enrolls 1.3 million people, 38 percent of whom are not eligible for Medicaid. While the Medicaid population has remained stable, the non-Medicaid population has increased...

Legal scholars of widely varying perspectives discuss the future structure and shape of American federalism.