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A FEW FOR-PROFIT BUSINESSES’ BATTLE OVER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT’S PREVENTATIVE SERVICES MANDATE

Journal of Law and Commerce

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Title A FEW FOR-PROFIT BUSINESSES’ BATTLE OVER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT’S PREVENTATIVE SERVICES MANDATE
 
Creator Coogan, Leigh Argentieri
 
Description Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are required to provide employees with health plans, which must include FDA, approved contraceptives with no cost sharing. While Health and Humans Services (HHS) revised the regulation to allow for a compromise among religious organizations and non-profits run by religious organizations, private for profit businesses must comply with the ACA even if the business asserts to be founded on religious principles. Several for profit business have sued in district court for an injunction against the requirements. However, a circuit split exists among courts granting preliminary injunctions against the ACA pending a granting of appeal. This note will focus on whether the federal government can compel secular, for profit organizations to provide employee health plans that include contraceptives, the morning after pill and sterilization under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Unless the statute or regulation changes, the Supreme Court will likely need to grant certiorari to resolve the issue.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pitt
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-07-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jlc.law.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jlc/article/view/64
10.5195/jlc.2014.64
 
Source Journal of Law and Commerce; Vol 32, No 2 (2014); 381-400
2164-7984
0733-2491
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jlc.law.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jlc/article/view/64/69