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Can Scientologists run businesses deny cover for psychiatric care?
Can Scientologists run businesses deny cover for psychiatric care?
Can Scientologists run businesses deny cover for psychiatric care?
Can Scientologists run businesses deny cover for psychiatric care?
Can Scientologists run businesses deny cover for psychiatric care?
People who would need insurance for the treatment of psychiatric conditions are not likely to be able to maintain full time benefitted jobs in the first place
The answer is yes, but the question is pretty much pointless because it's purely hypothetical. You might as well ask if a Branch Davidian employer could deny coverage for its quadriplegic employees. People who would need insurance for the treatment of psychiatric conditions are not likely to be able to maintain full time benefitted jobs in the first place such that it would EVER come up that a Scientologist employer was "denying coverage" for psychiatric treatment expenditures. It is purely a hypothetical question -- it would never play out in reality.
This was one of the things in the misnamed "Affordable Care Act" that I found especially stupid. The kind of mental illness requiring massive treatment expenditures is not a big risk among the privately insured. The people with severe enough mental illness that they need insurance coverage often cannot afford private insurance premiums, because the mental illness inhibits their ability to get or keep jobs, and they end up on SSDI/Medicaid or other governmental assistance programs to pay for their psychiatric care.