Court Opinion

ID: 9430938
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:30:56.803187+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:07.543091
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Justice Blackmun,
concurring in the judgment.
I join the judgment of the Court but not the opinion of the plurality, for I would base my vote to reverse not on an endorsement of the original Virginia interpretation but, flatly, on the deference that is due the Secretary of Health and Human Services in his interpretation of the governing statutes. In a statutory area as complicated as this one, the administrative authorities are far more able than this Court to determine congressional intent in the light of experience in the field. If the result is unacceptable to Congress, it has *384only to clarify the situation with language that unambiguously specifies its intent.