Sparks criticized Texas for taking more than a year to officially remove the provider and poked fun at the state's grounds for removing Planned Parenthood in his Tuesday decision.
"A secretly recorded video, fake names, a grand jury indictment, congressional investigations — these are the building blocks of a best-selling novel rather than a case concerning the interplay of federal and state authority through the Medicaid program," Sparks wrote. "Yet, rather than a villain plotting to take over the world, the subject of this case is the state of Texas' efforts to expel a group of health care providers from a social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources."
