Supreme Court allows more employers to skip coverage for birth control in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act
had sought to exempt employers with religious or moral objections from the so-called contraceptives mandate, established under the Affordable Care Act.It acknowledged, however, that 75,000 to 125,000 women could lose employer coverage for contraceptives. Without insurance, women can expect to pay $600 to $1,000 annually for oral contraception and more for longer-acting methods such as IUDs.
Under rules implemented during the Obama administration, most employers must offer cost-free coverage for contraceptives. Churches and other houses of worship were exempted from the start. In 2014, thethat privately held corporations with religious objections, such as Hobby Lobby, also could opt out.
Religious charities, hospitals and universities were given a lesser exception: They can tell their insurers to provide the coverage directly. But despite the high court's best efforts to broker a compromise, groups such as therefused to take that step, and states such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey insisted that they do.
In 2016, a shorthanded court with only eight justices failed to decide whether the religious nonprofit groups could stay out of the process entirely, rather than pass it on to their insurers. Instead, the court sentThe Justice Department also used the dispute to raise a pet peeve: that district court judges should not have the power to issue
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