State Budgets Hinge on SCOTUS Health Ruling: UMD Experts

'No fix for...state and local fiscal crisis without a fix for health care' - Don Kettl, UMD Public Policy DeanJune 20, 2012 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland and other states have a lot riding on the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), regardless of how the justices rule, University of Maryland experts say. The ACA was intended to help states rein in health care costs, driven up in recent years as the weak economy pushed more low-income individuals onto Medicaid. Maryland is one of 15 states that have begun to build health care exchanges -