White House Rolls Out New Birth Control Accommodation For Nonprofits
Source: Huffington Post
The new accommodation will allow religious nonprofits, such as Catholic schools and hospitals, to opt out of covering birth control by notifying the Department of Health and Human Services of their objections. HHS and the Department of Labor will then arrange for a third-party insurer to pay for and administer the coverage for the nonprofits' employees so that women still receive the contraceptive coverage guaranteed to them by the Affordable Care Act.
“Women across the country deserve access to recommended preventive services that are important to their health, no matter where they work,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. “Today’s announcement reinforces our commitment to providing women with access to coverage for contraception, while respecting religious considerations raised by non-profit organizations and closely held for-profit companies."
The original accommodation required religious nonprofits to directly ask a third-party insurer to pay for and administer the contraception coverage if the nonprofit objected to covering it. But several nonprofits sued the administration over the rule, claiming that the act of filling out a form violated their religious beliefs by serving as a "permission slip" for its employees to use contraceptives.
The administration developed the new accommodation to pre-empt those lawsuits, which legal experts expected the Supreme Court to take up next year.
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The White House has a plan to get birth control to Hobby Lobby workers
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An accommodation for closely-held for-profits
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At a company like Hobby Lobby, for example, this would mean that the owners would notify the government of their objection to contraceptives. The Obama administration would then pass that information along to Hobby Lobby's health insurance plan, which would be responsible for paying for the birth control coverage.
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More leeway for religious non-profits
The White House will also give more leeway to religious non-profits, like hospitals and colleges, that do not want to comply with the contraceptive mandate.
These non-profits will no longer be required to notify their health plan that they will not provide contraceptives, as preliminary regulations would have required. Instead, these employers will now only be required to notify the federal government of their objection and the government will have the responsibility of notifying the insurance plan.
Obama Admin Offers Hobby Lobby Workaround On Birth Control
A new "proposed rule" by the Department of Health and Human Services lets female employees of for-profit businesses, like Hobby Lobby, obtain birth control directly from their insurer, at no extra cost, if their boss opts out of covering the service in the company's insurance plan for religious reasons.
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"The interim final regulations are consistent with the Court's order in Wheaton College, which required the objecting religious employers to write HHS letters
saying they refused to provide the coverage for religious reasons," said the official. "We will also provide a model notice that eligible organizations may, but are not required to use."
Despite the administrative actions, the HHS official called on Congress to pass a legislative solution to "ensure women get access to services they need."
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Because it is a PERMISSION SLIP for their employees to use contraception. They refuse to give their PERMISSION to use birth control. I hope everyone hears that and thinks very loooooooong and haaaaarrrrrrd about that.
with their Morality Clauses, whoever pays for it, if they learn that their employees are even USING evil contraceptives. Every sex act must be "open" to God's will of CHILDREN.
