The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a case testing whether South Carolina was legally allowed to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.

South Carolina restricted Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid because the organization provides abortions.

However, the lawsuit was not about abortion access, but whether a Medicaid beneficiary has the “right” to pick their preferred health provider and sue if they can’t.

The state, backed by the Trump administration, argued there was no such right.

Conservative justices seemed sympathetic to concerns raised by the state about a constant flood of lawsuits if patients were allowed to sue over their provider being removed from Medicaid.

“We’re talking about 9,000 providers who have been disqualified across the country, any one of whom, if you rule in favor of Respondents, can recruit a beneficiary and go to federal court and........

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