You could be forgiven for not hearing about Liberty Mutual v. Gobeille, a case on the Supreme Court’s docket this term. There are, indeed, other important cases that will be decided: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin for instance, challenges a circuit court’s support of U of Texas’s race-based affirmative action policies; Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association seeks to expand on a previous case, by invalidating “public sector union shops.” Gobeille has nothing to do with some of the more exciting issues of the day. But what the court decides in Gobeille could spell the end of state efforts to inject long-overdue price transparency in health care pricing, potentially affecting millions of Americans.
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