New Obamacare contraception rule for religious groups in the works
CBS/AP /July 23, 2014, 11:08 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is developing a new way for religious nonprofits that object to paying for contraceptives in their health plans to opt out, without submitting a form they say violates their religious beliefs.
The government has been searching for solutions since the Supreme Court decided an evangelical college in Illinois can avoid filling out the form while the case is being appealed. That move undercut the accommodation the Obama administration had devised in hopes of resolving religious group's objections without shifting the cost for birth control to employees.
The document, known as Form 700, lets faith-affiliated groups transfer responsibility for paying for birth control to insurers or third-party administrators. The employer would not be responsible for arranging the coverage or paying for it, and insurers would be reimbursed by the government in the form of credits against fees they would owe under other portions of the health care law.
But Wheaton College objected to that system, arguing that just filling out the form makes the institution complicit by forcing it to participate in a system that subsidizes coverage they oppose.
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