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Contraceptive Insurance Mandate Faces Change

hypocritexposer

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this administration just can't get anything right, the first time.

WASHINGTON (CNN) —Religiously affiliated organizations will be able to opt out of providing their employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives under updates to an Obama administration mandate that the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to unveil on Friday, according to two sources.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/politics/Contraceptive-insurance-mandate-faces-change/-/9848766/18365614/-/luu9niz/-/index.html
 

Steve

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opt out.. not really...

the choice is just pushed up the ladder a bit.. or down the road..

only religious organizations directly involved with religious activities are allowed the so called opt out..

their insurance company will still have to provide the coverage for any employee who requests it.. and can not be charged separately for that coverage...

so who pays for it.. according to the White House.. the insurance company does.. REALLY?

if the coverage is paid by the insurance company.. then indirectly the organization will stay pay for it..

just an end run around the lawsuits it knew it would lose...



The abortion mandate still stands

The original mandate was a shell-game, and this latest “change” is only more of the same. The original rule required religious employers to pay money to an insurance company that would then provide abortion-inducing drugs for employees that wanted them. That is still true today despite the overhyped announcement. There’s no substantive difference. The changes are cosmetic at best.

Under this proposal, objecting nonprofits will be allowed to offer employees a plan that does not cover contraceptives. Their health insurer will then automatically enroll employees in a separate individual policy, which only covers contraceptives, at no cost. This policy would stand apart from the employer’s larger benefit package.

The faith-based employer would not “have to contract, arrange, pay or refer for any contraceptive coverage to which they object on religious grounds.”

Before the announcement, CNN had reported that under the new rule religious non-profits would be able to opt-out of the abortion mandate.

But it is no such thing. The new rule is still too narrow and only exempts houses of worship and their affiliates.

If you still have any question about the nature of today’s “changes,” then you might find it clarifying that Planned Parenthood is celebrating the decision. Cecile Richards writes:

This policy delivers on the promise of women having access to birth control without co-pays no matter where they work… This policy makes it clear that your boss does not get to decide whether you can have birth control.

Planned Parenthood has reason to be confident. White House spokesman Jay Carney was quick to assure everyone that the new “opt-out” would not prevent women from obtaining abortion-inducing drugs.

It probably helps as well that abortion rights groups were briefed personally by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. I wonder if she gave a briefing to pro-life groups as well?
http://www.dennyburk.com/a-big-fat-nothing-burger-from-updates-to-abortion-mandate/

just more of the same trampling on the rights of those who do not want to fund their pro abortion agenda.. with a shell game thrown in...
 
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