On Friday, a divided Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of two for-profit companies and their owners, holding that they are both likely to win their constitutional challenges to the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act.
Tag: Affordable Care Act
Implementing Health Reform: Contraceptive Coverage Litigation Moves Toward The Supreme Court
Litigation challenging the Affordable Care Act preventive services rule
continues its march toward the Supreme Court. This requirement has been
challenged by over 60 lawsuits filed across the country by religious
organizations and employers that object on religious grounds either to
contraceptives generally or to specific contraceptives — like Ella or
Plan B — that operate after the fertilization of an egg by a sperm.
White House Delays Health-care Rule That Businesses Provide Insurance to Workers
The White House on Tuesday delayed for one year a requirement under the Affordable Care Act that businesses provide health insurance to employees, a fresh setback for President Obama’s landmark health-care overhaul as it enters a critical phase.
With A Little Planning, Women Can Get Emergency Contraceptives For Free
Women of all ages will soon be able to pick up emergency contraceptive pills at pharmacies and other stores without a prescription or proof of age. What many may not realize, however, is that they can get the pricey pills free under the Affordable Care Act. Doing so, however, may take time and forethought.
Who’s Going to Get Free Birth Control?
So you ring up your birth control prescription at the pharmacy this month and the clerk says “that will be $0.” Cha-ching. You can’t beat that price.But unfortunately the more common scenario is that the clerk asks for the $10, $20, or $35 co-pay they’ve asked for every month. What happened to the “free preventive care services,” including contraception, that were promised under the Affordable Care Act, anyway?
Today, Few Public Family Planning Centers Accept Insurance
Most women can expect to get contraceptives without paying out of pocket for them thanks to the federal Affordable Care Act. Women who are young or those who are poor and rely on publicly funded family planning centers for reproductive health services are covered, too.But there’s a catch.
Religious Leaders who Endorse Contraceptive Coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
In the upcoming election, contraceptive coverage and our reproductive rights are highlighted as important issues. Debates become polarized and what we choose to do with our bodies seems to be controversial.
While there are many vocal opponents …
Supreme Court Upholds Obama’s Health-Care Law
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Thursday joined the Supreme Court’s liberals to save the heart of President Obama’s landmark health-care law, agreeing that the requirement for nearly all Americans to secure insurance is permissible under Congress’s taxing authority.
The court’s 5 to 4 ruling was a stunning legal conclusion to a battle that has consumed American politics for two years. Roberts’s compromise offered a dramatic victory for Obama and Democrats’ decades-long effort to enact a health-care law and a bitter defeat for Republicans and tea party activists, who had uniformly opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.