The Medicaid Act

This is what the Supreme Court of the United States has said about the Medicaid Act:

The Medicaid Act is “an aggravated assault on the English language, resistant to attempts to understand it.” See Schweiker v. Gray Panthers, 453 U.S. 34, 43 (1981).

One of the Circuit Courts, just below the Supreme Court, had this to say:

The Medicaid Act is one of the “most completely impenetrable texts within human experience” and “dense reading of the most tortuous kind.” Rehab. Ass'n of Va. v. Kozlowski, 42 F.3d 1444, 1450 (4th Cir. 1994).

From the Memorandum Opinion of the Honorable Jay C. Waldman in Mertz v. Houston, No. 01-2627, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (July 30, 2001):

“The Medicaid Act is actually a morass of interconnecting legislation. It contains provisions which are circuitous and, at best, difficult to harmonize.”