Audio (and transcript) of today's Oral Agument:

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http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2011/2011_11_400

Edit:

Will be interesting to hear the medicaid argument, as Justice Ginsburg today questioned State's interest in NOT paying those who are eligible. 'Wouldn't the States want all those eligible to receive the benefit?' (My restatement of her question, toward the end of today's argument.)

Medicaid's the last 60 minute segment in the 3-day exercise.

'What are the major arguments on Medicaid?

The government asserts that "it is well settled that Congress's spending power includes the power to fix the terms on which it will disburse funds to the states," that Congress has repeatedly expanded the state-federal Medicaid program, and that this new expansion will not "impose significantly onerous burdens on the states."

The 26 states counter that the Medicaid expansion unconstitutionally coerces them because it "threatens States with the loss of every penny of federal funding under the single largest grant-in-aid program in existence -- literally billions of dollars each year -- if they do not capitulate to Congress' steep new demands."'

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2012/march/15/supreme-court-curtain-raiser.aspx