Potential Supreme Court decision: who will bear the coverage "burdens?"
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Sobel, Laura, (Of Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation), author Salganicoff, Alina, author Kurani, Nisha, author
- Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2014
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Contraception Health Benefit Plans, Employee -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance Benefits -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance Coverage -- legislation & jurisprudence Supreme Court Decisions United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- One of the elements of the Affordable Care Act that has received considerable national attention is the requirement that employers that provide health insurance to their workers must include coverage for all FDA approved contraceptive services and supplies. This requirement has been at the center of a case that has now reached the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, are two for-profit corporations contending that the requirement that they include coverage for certain contraceptive services (emergency contraceptive pills and intrauterine devices) in their insurance plans "substantially burdens" both the corporation's and the owners' religious rights. In the March 2014 oral arguments, several of the justices discussed the extent to which the corporations did or not did not have a choice in offering coverage to their workers. In this brief, we explore some of the factors influencing coverage decisions and possible consequences for women and employers given two possible Supreme Court decision options: either upholding the contraceptive coverage requirement as it applies to Hobby Lobby or in favor of Hobby Lobby. For ease of using one example, we will use Hobby Lobby in this brief. Any decision will apply to both companies.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101636963 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101636963