President Obama?s mandate that most private companies provide health insurance plans that cover the costs of contraceptives has met with considerable headwinds in the legal system, where nine of the 14 federal courts to rule so far have sided with employers who say the mandate violates their beliefs and infringes on their religious liberties.
Although the broad scope of the president?s health care law survived Supreme Court scrutiny last year, the challenges to the contraception mandate remain major legal hurdles for the Obama administration, and the deep skepticism shown by a number of judges makes it likely that the high court will be called upon to settle this dispute, too.
?I think the case is probably heading for the Supreme Court,? said Timothy Jost, a health care scholar at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. ?We already have a split in the circuits.?
The birth control mandate has been a flash point since it was announced a year ago.
Under the new rules, all employers with the exception of houses of worship have to pay for ? or make available through an outside insurer ? contraceptive coverage for employees as part of their insurance plans, including such items as the ?morning-after pill,? sterilizations and other treatments to which the Catholic Church, many evangelicals and other religions object.
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Source: http://bighealthreport.com/6588/obamacare-contraception-mandate-hits-legal-hurdles/
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