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The Trump administration considers the wide exemption from the Obamacare mandate on contraceptive coating, according to the project of the proposed rule published Voks on Wednesday.
Since 2011, the Obamacare Regulation requires most employers to provide Insurance that covers control of the birth rate, without any costs for the patient. The rule was the goal of a number of judicial claims of religious employers, who believed that the demand violates their religious beliefs. Showing the sensitivity to such problems, in 2014 the Supreme Court ruled Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that some religious employers could abandon lighting. But the court demanded that they submit documents indicating their objection, in turn, to cause a separate coating of contraception for employees provided directly by the insurance company. This decision, however, did not solve the problem for religious groups. Subsequently, the Supreme Court of 2016, Zubik v. BurwellA number of religious organizations said that even this housing demanded that they violate their beliefs, since the documents forced their accomplice to ensure the coverage of control over birth rate. The Supreme Court sent the case to the lower courts, where it has not yet been decided.
Now the Trump administration seems to be ready to expand the liberation from control over the birth rate outside only religious employers. According to the leaked draft dated May 23, the new rule will allow practically any the organization abandon the mandate if they feel that the coating of contraception violates “Their religious beliefs and moral beliefs.”
“This rule will mean that women throughout the country may be denied insurance coverage to control the birth rate of a whim from their employer or university,” said Singzer, vice -president of state policy and relations with state relations of the planned parental Federation. “This would expand the Supreme Court Lobby hobby The decision to allow any employer, including huge, publicly traded companies, to deny the insurance coverage of the birth rate for their employees. Think about this: in accordance with this rule, bosses will be able to impose their personal beliefs on private medical decisions of their employees. ”
Moreover, this project does not require employers to refuse the mandate to notify the government they make; They should only notify employees of changing their insurance plans. Insurance companies can also refuse to cover contraception if it violates their religious or moral beliefs.
It seems that this provides even wider release than the fact that the Trump team had previously signed that it would perceive. Throughout the campaign, Trump assured religious leaders that their organizations should not have observed the mandate of contraception: “I will make absolutely definite religious orders, such as small sisters of the poor, are not subjected to mockery of the federal government from their religious beliefs.” He wrote In a letter to the Catholic leaders last year, citing the nun, who were a party in Tooth The case of the Supreme Court. And May 4 Trump, surrounded Little sisters of the poor, signed Executive order About religious freedom, which encourages several institutions to solve the objections of religious employers against the requirements of the preventive assistance of Obamacare, including contraception.
It is unclear that Changes could be made to this project from May 23, but it is clear that the rule is at an advanced stage process; Management and budget management announced that this Currently considers This is the penultimate step before, as a rule, it will be accepted through publication in the federal register.
You can read the full draft received Voksbelow:
