#ObamaSays :: Obama to Create Contraceptive Rule “Accomodation” to Appease Religious Orgs
At 12:15 p.m. ET, President Obama will announce an attempt to accommodate religious groups put off by the new rule requiring employers (including religious organizations) to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage.
The goal is to preserve the notion that women employees will have their birth control fully covered by health insurance, but offer up an appeasing solution to religious leaders. Sources say that move will fail to satisfy the groups.
ABC News reports:
One source familiar with the decision described the accommodation as “Hawaii-plus,” insisting that it’s better than the Hawaii plan — for both sides.
In Hawaii the employer is responsible for referring employees to places where they can obtain the contraception; Catholic leaders call that material cooperation with evil. But what the White House will likely announce later today is that the relationship between the religious employer and the insurance company will not need to have any component involving contraception. The insurance company will reach out on its own to the women employees. This is better for both sides, the source says, since the religious organizations do not have to deal with medical care to which they object, and women employees will not have to be dependent upon an organization strongly opposed to that care in order to obtain it.
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