There is a civil war underway between the states and the federal courts over long-term care and health care policy. The Supreme Court, wielding the Supremacy Clause and a broad federal statute favoring arbitration, has the upper hand, but the states, armed with common law contract principles, are fighting to vindicate the rights of injured litigants to reach state courts.

And it all has nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.

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