In Alexander v. Choate, 469 U.S. 287 (1985), the Supreme Court upheld the fourteen-day annual limit on inpatient hospital stays imposed by Tennessee's Medicaid plan even though the Act requires states to cover inpatient hospital services. The Supreme Court recognized that some patients would require more than fourteen days of inpatient services in a year but noted that Medicaid did not require that a state plan "guarantee that each recipient will receive that level of health care precisely tailored to his or her particular needs." Id. at 303. Rather, "the benefit provided through Medicaid is a particular package of health care services. . . . That package of services has the general aim of assuring that individuals will receive necessary medical care, but the benefit provided remains the individual services offered - not 'adequate health care.'" Id.