Geisinger Community Medical Center v. Secretary United States Department of Health & Human Services

The majority offers a well-reasoned reading of Section 401. In fact, the majority may even offer the most persuasive interpretation of this statutory provision. However, it is not this Court’s job to adopt what it believes to be the best reading of the statute. Instead, we must “use the familiar two-step analysis set forth in Chevron.” (Majority Opinion at 12.) Under this doctrine, we must first decide whether or not “Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue.” Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-43, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 81 L.Ed.2d 694…