Just a thought ... didn't the Supreme Court just grant Hobby Lobby ...

[IggleDoer]

... an unfair advantage over it's competitors (cheaper health insurance without Birth Control, making for cheaper operating costs). The Supremes then recommend that the government find a way to subsidize the health care costs that HL won't pay.

Do the competitors have a legitimate beef?

[Lee-Lee]

1. Probably not

Health care costs vary wildly based on lots of factors, so since this is just one variable among thousands there probably won't be any case.

Heck if I moved 3 miles across a county line I could drop the cost of a plan on the exchanges by over $800 a year. Just by moving 3 miles.

Way too many variables.

[PoliticAverse]

2. I think competitors are denied 'the equal protection of the law'.

If Hobby Lobby can avoid paying for something other businesses should be able to as well.

[yeoman6987]

3. I highly doubt there is much savings

They still have to pay for the other 16 birth control items.

[MohRokTah]

6. Nope, they don't.

The SCOTUS ruled that ALL contraception is covered by their ruling.

They clarified this morning.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Thank you MOH

This means - any pharmaceutical company could see their bottom line a little less brighter.

[mwrguy]

10. But they will

They are not obligated, but will voluntarily cover those 16.

Jesus only cares about the four, apparently.

[valerief]

4. the competitors can do the same, so long as they're Christian and want to discriminate

against women.

[Skittles]

5. more unintended pregnancies means more cost

[Warpy]

8. They still cover the pill, the patch and the ring

They don't cover Plan B (too stupid to know how it works, along with the 5 Goons) or IUDs.

[WhiteTara]

9. Birth control is a part of the ACA and if you don't have it

it is a premium plan and so it will cost them more to offer less, if I understand it correctly.