A bill to ensure that employers cannot interfere in their employees' birth control and other health care decisions.

Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage, to any of their employees or the covered dependents of such employees entitled by Federal law to receive such coverage. More: beta.congress.gov.

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May 26, 2015

No, I would not support it. An employer refusing to pay for your health care decisions is not "interfering" with your health care decisions. Said employer is acting on his/her/their own conscience in not paying directly for services which he/she/they have moral objections to. Your right to do something does not entail a right to have someone else pay for it.

The problem with the Hobby Lobby decision as it stands, is proving sincerity of belief. Privately held companies/corporations can claim they've had a "moral revelation" and suddenly be against this or that coverage, and one might rightly wonder if it is a scam to weasel out of paying more for the employee health plan.

For almost as long as people have been advocating the passage of the Affordable Care Act, I have been saying that one of the problems with the pre-ACA system is the inefficiency and lack of portability of employer-paid health plans, and that instead of seeking to get rid of same, the ACA enshrines it in law. Stipulating specific coverages by law has only exacerbated the problem, not only by causing legitimate moral concerns for some employers being asked to pay for such things, but also by enabling a potential loophole for some employers who just want to save money.

If you want a new law to fix the problem, you need one that fixes ACA, not one that potentially interferes with the religious rights of employers.

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User voted I oppose this bill.
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May 26, 2015

This bill is nonsense. Either congress CAN pass bills and enact laws that apply to everyone, EVEN CORPORATIONS, in the United States, or they can't.

Going back after allowing this fiasco to take place and trying to cobble together some garbage legislation is a waste of taxpayer dollars and the time of our "legislative body" that could probably be spent to better use somewhere else.

All incumbents should be thrown out... maybe that would be message enough to quit this unending parade of bad legislature and even worse posturing.

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May 26, 2015

Another liberal idea that really means nothing we take away the rights of the employer and mandate they provide Health Insurance, then tell them what Health insurance they must provide another Big Brother program. The best bill would be do away with mandatory health insurance altogether and actually mandate that employers can not provide health insurance and make the insurance co. who have made more profit than just about any other company in the country go directly to the insured meaning they would have to compete for your business.

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May 26, 2015

This bill is in direct response to the Supreme Court's constitutional decision that gave Hobby Lobby owners their constitutional freedom to practice their religion without Federal interference. FYI, Hobby Lobby's insurance policy supports contraceptive birth control measures, 16 of them, but does not support abortion (the ten measures that Hobby Lobby forbids). Abortion is murder and murder is forbidden both by God's Law and by our secular law. Bill S.2578 should be struck down and our constitution defended--but that won't happen, not with the traitor and his ilk in office.

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May 26, 2015

Who wrote the title of this question? Is the bill really written this way? How is not paying for someone's medical decisions interfering with their decisions.

Am I interfering with people getting an education by not paying their tuition?

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2 votes,
May 26, 2015

John, on the bottom of the description there's a link to congress.gov, if you have any doubts.

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May 26, 2015

Thanks. I read through the bill. Pretty much the nonsense I expected. Sticking with my thumbs down vote on this topic.

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Oct 8, 2015

Discrimination should not be allowed. Employers do not have absolute rights any more than employees do. When an employer operates in the public sphere and provides health benefits, those health benefits should be non-discriminatory. The health care decisions are the employees', not the employers'. An employer can't curtail an employees' wages either based on their private decisions: They should not be able to do it with any kind of benefits.

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