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Posted on 08/23/2014 8:32:16 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
The Obama administration issued a new rule Friday over the requirement that companies provide insurance that covers contraceptives.
Employers would register objections to paying for such care with the government, which would arrange for insurers to provide such coverage, according to the rule published in the federal register Friday. Previously, the rule called for employers to file their objections directly with insurers.
"Women across the country deserve access to recommended preventive services that are important to their health, no matter where they work," said HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell. "Today's announcement reinforces our commitment to providing women with access to coverage for contraception, while respecting religious considerations raised by nonprofit organizations and closely held for-profit companies."
Despite past adjustments to the Affordable Care Act, the groups — including Roman Catholic bishops, schools and some privately held businesses —– argue that the law's contraception mandate forces them to violate their religious beliefs.
Friday's action comes in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, which declared that some private employers have a religious right to be exempted from the law. The court also granted Wheaton College a temporary exemption from the mandate, suggesting justices could issue a broader blow to the mandate if the Obama administration did not tweak the law.
The new rule, as well as a similar proposal for businesses published Friday, follows the logic endorsed by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the swing vote in the Hobby Lobby case. He held that the administration should accommodate objections by allowing insurers to cover the cost.
There was little sign the conflict was close to resolution. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, was disappointed the new rule only adjusted the process rather than expanded the pool of employers that might seek an exemption.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The new rule, as well as a similar proposal for businesses published Friday, follows the logic endorsed by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the swing vote in the Hobby Lobby case. He held that the administration should accommodate objections by allowing insurers to cover the cost.
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Would Obama be allowing or forcing?
How about abstinence. . .sounds like a cost effective measure to me.
So the government wants to build a pro-life database. What could possibly be wrong with that? /sarc
In fact, regardless what activist justices and the corrupt media want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare Democratcare, the Supreme Court had historically clarified, using health laws, of all things, as an example, that the states have never constitutionality delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The Supreme Court has also clarified that powers not expressly delegated to the feds via the Constitution are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And who pays? It’s still the employer.
If you cannot afford $20 a month birth control pills, you aren’t adult enough to have sex.
Or get an IUD for the cost of that new cell phone and not have to worry about contraception for five or more years.
Go ahead, file your complaint and get an audit.
” You don’t have to pay for abortions Hobby Lobby. You just have to give usthe money and we will pay for them.” - HHS.
Nice how Obama waves his golf club and the laws are changed however he wants.
one alternative is to fire the women charging birth control to their company insurance
I don’t think this complies with the ruling. I believe the ruling said that businesses could not be forced to file a form or anything to state their objection, because that was in effect a pro-active action that they knew would result in the delivery of these medications they object to. I’ll have to find it, but I’m almost certain I read something like that in the ruling.
The law is no obstacle for Obama.
If the ability to get PG is an illness that should be covered by health insurance they should mandate women who need birth control a free tube tying.
IIRC, Jimmy Carter’s HHS secretary described pregnancy as the second most common disease after tooth decay.
Ya’ know...There are not enough visitors in the dead of night anymore...
I cannot figure out why birth control is considered so important that is has to be free, while other drugs are not. After all, even if you don’t take the pill and get pregnant, it is only a short-term thing; 9 months later, you will be pretty much as you were before.
While those with life-threatening illness, if they don’t have their medications, could well die.
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