{"id":13621,"date":"2020-07-08T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13621"},"modified":"2020-07-08T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T20:18:13","slug":"2020-07-08-scotus-employers-health-plans-no-longer-have-to-pay-for-contraceptives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13621","title":{"rendered":"2020-07-08 SCOTUS: Employers Health Plans No Longer Have To Pay For Contraceptives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court decided against the Obamacare law requiring employers&#8217; health plans to pay for birth control. The employer must have religious or moral objections to birth control. This is not a major victory for Trumpism because the employee can find a job somewhere that doesn&#8217;t have an objection.<\/p>\n<p>There is the &#8220;externalities&#8221; or unintended consequences. By giving exemptions, the organizations that take the exemption make them less competitive when it comes to attracting new employees. The exemption also gives a further reason to implement Medicare For All and give healthcare and birth control to all legal US residents.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting statistic from this article:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt; Over 61.4 million women in the US have birth control coverage with zero out-of-pocket costs, according the National Women&#8217;s Law Center. &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2020\/07\/08\/politics\/supreme-court-obamacare-contraceptive-mandate\/index.html\">https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2020\/07\/08\/politics\/supreme-court-obamacare-contraceptive-mandate\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court decided against the Obamacare law requiring employers&#8217; health plans to pay for birth control. The employer must have religious or moral objections to birth control. This is not a major victory for Trumpism because the employee can find a job somewhere that doesn&#8217;t have an objection. There is the &#8220;externalities&#8221; or unintended<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13621\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13626,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions\/13626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}