Ted Cruz once took the Bush administration to court over prescription drugs for seniors
Ted Cruz has been an ardent Obamacare opponent; he held a 21-hour filibuster in 2013 to protest federal funding for the health overhaul.
But before Cruz focused on attacking Obamacare, he launched a lesser-known challenge to another big entitlement program: the Medicare Modernization Act.
Passed in 2003 during the George W. Bush administration, the Medicare Modernization Act created a new federal entitlement program to cover seniors' prescription drug costs. Cruz, then serving as Texas's solicitor general, petitioned the Supreme Court to repeal that law, arguing that it was an unconstitutional overstep by the federal government.
"Congress has entered uncharted territory," Cruz argued in the case, Texas v. Leavitt. "No other federal statute conscripts state governments directly to fund a federal program."
Read more: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/25/8288373/ted-cruz-medicare-drugs
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