The U.S. Supreme Court Allows New Challenge To Obamacare To Go Forward
The two issues: The employer mandate & the contraception mandate. Continue reading
Obamacare lawsuits keep coming
At National Review Online, Jonathan H. Adler reviews the pending lawsuits against Obamacare. Continue reading
Federal judge bars enforcement of contraception mandate on Colorado Company
A senior U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Colorado issued an order forbidding the government from taking action against a company called Hercules Industries for refusing to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees. Continue reading
Kopel on Other Possible Legal Challenges to ObamaCare
The constitutionality of the “individual mandate” was at issue in the recent Supreme Court ruling. But other legal challenges are likely, argues Dave Kopel. Continue reading
Catholic university drops student health insurance, cites ObamaCare intolerance
A university responds to ObamaCare’s religious intolerance. Continue reading
End birth-control coverage battle: Allow us to buy it without a prescription
Former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel argues that people should be able to buy birth control as they do condoms: Without a prescription. This would diffuse the controversy on government’s mandate that health plans cover birth control. Continue reading
Free Market Lessons from Contraception Fight
3 lessons: Health insurance should be uncoupled from employment Mandated benefits will become political footballs. We must fight for freedom as a principle. Continue reading
Mandated birth control coverage: It’s not about contraceptives, it’s about liberty
In a free society, we … allow individuals to pursue their individual goals according to their “different moral convictions.” We don’t force them into relationships, whether with employers or insurance companies or whomever, that offend those convictions. Continue reading
Contraception mandate: The Illiberality of ObamaCare
The non-compromise Obama floated does not reduce by one penny the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on contraception. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president’s health care law will grind up the freedom of every American. Continue reading
Access to birth control has nothing to do with actual insurance
In other words, lack of insurance coverage for contraception is equivalent to being forced not to use contraception. That is some strange argument, but it’s what we’ve come to expect from members of the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” So the question remains: What has this got to do with insurance? Continue reading
