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Re: Supreme Court backs Hobby Lobby in contraceptive mandate challenge
I guess I disagree, but perhaps reasonable people can on that narrow issue. But if you take the end result proposed by the courts, there is really no change on the ground. If HL had lost, their plan would have covered all 20 options for free. HL won, and if the court's proposed remedy is put in place, all 20 are covered for free, and paid for by the same insurance company administering the HL plan, and for the same employees. The changes is the official 'HL Insurance Drug List" doesn't include the names of those 4, but access by employees to those 4 is unaffected
Hobby Lobby isn't trying to deny contraceptives to everyone. They are surely aware that women will still get contraceptives whether they provide them or not. They just didn't want to be the ones providing them. That was the whole point; it's a religious objection. That doesn't make it an "empty gesture".
I guess I disagree, but perhaps reasonable people can on that narrow issue. But if you take the end result proposed by the courts, there is really no change on the ground. If HL had lost, their plan would have covered all 20 options for free. HL won, and if the court's proposed remedy is put in place, all 20 are covered for free, and paid for by the same insurance company administering the HL plan, and for the same employees. The changes is the official 'HL Insurance Drug List" doesn't include the names of those 4, but access by employees to those 4 is unaffected