As part of the Affordable Care Act’s implementing guidelines, group health care plans are required to include preventative care coverage, including methods of contraception. There were some exceptions where religious facilities and organizations are exempt from these requirements. After the Hobby Lobby case, the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created some accommodations for certain non-profit organizations stating that they may opt out from providing contraceptive coverage by certifying their religious objection. By receiving the certification, they will be opted out from funding the contraceptive coverage but organization’s insurance company or its third-party administrator will step in, to provide the coverage. In 2014, the government provided a second accommodation for religious non-profit organizations to write a letter to the government in order to be released of any obligations to provide contraceptive coverage mandate in Affordable Care Act.
Going against this accommodation, a religious non-profit organization called Little Sisters of the Poor argued that the process of exemption should include coverage of a cost-sharing mechanism of such services and not just exception of such services. Moreover, they stated the process of certifying their religious objections violates their religious right under the Religious Freedom …show more content…
Unlike the Supreme Court case of Hobby Lobby, asking for an accommodation for employees to have contraceptive coverage but release the employer from paying for it, Little Sisters of the Poor is requesting for an exemption from the contraceptive coverage rule, meaning their employees would not have contraceptive coverage which violates their religious belief. I think this argument of Little Sisters of Poor is little far beyond the scope, even though I am also against
Going against this accommodation, a religious non-profit organization called Little Sisters of the Poor argued that the process of exemption should include coverage of a cost-sharing mechanism of such services and not just exception of such services. Moreover, they stated the process of certifying their religious objections violates their religious right under the Religious Freedom …show more content…
Unlike the Supreme Court case of Hobby Lobby, asking for an accommodation for employees to have contraceptive coverage but release the employer from paying for it, Little Sisters of the Poor is requesting for an exemption from the contraceptive coverage rule, meaning their employees would not have contraceptive coverage which violates their religious belief. I think this argument of Little Sisters of Poor is little far beyond the scope, even though I am also against